Jack Nicholson Movie Quotes

#1. Bouquet list. You've heard of the Jack Nicholson movie, right? The Bucket List? Two old guys who make a list of everything they want to do before they die. Well, when I was starting to recover, I wrote a list of the things I want to do now that I know I'm not going to die - my bouquet list.

Barbara DeLeo

#2. I do know that as the novel takes shape on the page, it's hard for characters' lives not to intersect with the writer's own life. As we unpack our characters' stories and actions, it's hard not to unpack our own history.

Jacqueline Woodson

#3. I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.

Ray Wise

#4. When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Jack Nicholson

#5. Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

Jack Nicholson

#6. We will cooperate fully with the SEC and look forward to the opportunity to put any concern about these transactions to rest.

Kenneth Lay

#7. You can't handle the truth!

Jack Nicholson

#8. 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.

Jack Nicholson

#9. War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Ernie Pyle

#10. Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Jack Nicholson

#11. The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are central to the idea of the movie.

Jack Nicholson

#12. 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.

Jack Nicholson

#13. I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

Jack Nicholson

#14. Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

Jack Nicholson

#15. All bad nights come to an end.

Samantha Schutz

#16. I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

Jack Nicholson

#17. OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

Jack Nicholson

#18. I also couldn't pass up the opportunity to be in the same movie as Jack Nicholson and Glenn Close.

Lukas Haas

#19. Any chance you might sit on my face?'
'Carnal Knowledge'
'That's the stuff.'
'No, I mean 'Carnal Knowledge, the movie. Jack Nicholson says that to Ann Margret when they first meet. She's a skater.'
'Well, is there?'
'Are you always this direct?

Linda Banana

#20. There's no really signature Leo DiCaprio role, like Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson no matter what movie he's in.

Dennis Christopher

#21. That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

Jack Nicholson

#22. I'm not a huge scary movie kind of guy; like, I don't do slasher movies, because I'm really squeamish. But if I had to pick a favorite, it would definitely be 'The Shining' with Jack Nicholson. Not only is that a scary movie, it's just a flat out classic.

Brendan Robinson

#23. You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

Jack Nicholson

#24. I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.

Madchen Amick

#25. It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

Jack Nicholson

#26. I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

Teri Garr

#27. I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman.

Jack Nicholson

#28. You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

Jack Nicholson

#29. Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

Thomas S. Monson

#30. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is a movie that I just find flawless. Jack Nicholson ... I just saw 'The Shining' again the other day; he's so brilliant. He's such a brilliant actor, just unbelievable.

Michael Biehn

#31. There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material.

Jack Nicholson

#32. You can call me Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier.

Jack Nicholson