Jack Nicholson Quotes
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Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
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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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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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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 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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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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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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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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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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What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
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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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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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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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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 would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
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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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I hate giving advice, because people won't take 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.