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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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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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 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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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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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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The camera photographs what's there.
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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 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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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.