Jack Nicholson Quotes
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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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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I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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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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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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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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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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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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What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
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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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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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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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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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The camera photographs what's there.
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I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
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I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
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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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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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I'm a good friend.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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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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I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.