Jack Nicholson Quotes
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
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There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!
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I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
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What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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The camera photographs what's there.
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I'm a good friend.
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I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.