Top 100 Quotes About Jack Nicholson
#1. You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.
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#2. You can call me Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier.
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#3. 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.
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#4. My wife always says that I will be stuck with this forever: I am the difficult one. With Jack Nicholson they always said it was drugs. Warren Beatty is supposed to have screwed everything that jumped off the curve. I'll tell you, in reality a few of us had as many girls as Warren.
Dustin Hoffman
#5. I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.
Elliott Smith
#6. I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.
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#7. The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.
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#8. Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.
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#9. Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?
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#11. I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey.
Rob Zombie
#12. Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in 'Batman'; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.
Tom Hiddleston
#14. I do pray. I pray to something ... up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.
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#15. 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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#16. I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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#17. Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.
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#18. Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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#19. I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.
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#20. '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
#21. I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.
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#23. I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.
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#24. Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true.
Paul Kane
#25. Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.
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#26. Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this
heat is making me absolutely crazy.
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#27. My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch
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#28. There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.
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#29. I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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#30. He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.
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#31. Go sell crazy someplace else; we're all stocked up."
(Melvin Udall aka Jack Nicholson, 1997)
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#32. We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
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#33. I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.
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#34. If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.
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#35. Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells ...
Shannon Celebi
#36. When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.
Susanna Moore
#37. I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.
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#38. Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.
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#39. I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.
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#40. The blues and jazz will live forever ... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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#41. Believe it or not, I supported Richard Nixon on the issue of presidential privilege. How could anyone conceive of being the president of the United States and think that every single thing that you say or do can become a part of the public record? It just seems so stupid to me.
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#42. 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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#43. You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.
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#44. I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.
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#45. New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.
Queen Latifah
#46. With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
-Jack Nicholson
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#47. 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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#48. The less people know about me, the easier my job is.
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#49. I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.
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#50. We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.
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#51. And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.
Keanu Reeves
#52. It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.
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#53. I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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#54. 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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#55. I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
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#56. Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
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#57. I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
Ed Begley Jr.
#59. 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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#60. I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
Jack Kilmer
#61. You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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#62. I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.
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#63. I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.
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#64. I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.
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#65. In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door in 'The Bucket List.' In 'Gran Torino,' the cranky pensioner played by Clint Eastwood not only owned a 1972 GT Sport, he also used to build cars like that at the Ford plant.
Richard Corliss
#66. If I could transform my stage life to the movies, I'd be Jack Nicholson.
Brian Dennehy
#67. I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.
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#69. I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have.
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#70. Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.
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#73. There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.
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#74. Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.
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#76. I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.
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#77. I was spending three days literally just kibitzing with Jack Nicholson at a table! It was heaven! And talk about a normal guy. My God, he was just so real and cool and relaxed and fun. And he was a great performer. He's such an actor. He really was so focused on every moment. It was great.
Peter Jacobson
#78. I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.
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#80. 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
#82. There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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#83. In fact, when they wake up in the morning, they're Jack Nicholson or Robert De Niro or Josh Brolin. And it's built-in, but they think it's all this other stuff. But it's not. They'd be great if they didn't think about their part or if they did think about it.
Woody Allen
#84. I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
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#85. I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.
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#86. I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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#87. A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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#88. I'd love to do like a modern day 'Shining' and play the Jack Nicholson role.
Janet Montgomery
#89. 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.
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#90. I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me!" Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me.
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#91. There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.
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#92. I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.
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#93. I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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#94. I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?
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#95. I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
Madchen Amick
#96. 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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#97. There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so forth. And we pretty much just accept it.
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#98. 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.
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#99. Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.
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#100. Women
a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?
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