I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
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… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
I think it's good if a man gives a woman some time to herself because I think we all need that and we can… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
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… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share
![“It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television…” quote by Jack Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/836/jack-nicholson-1283_art_it-tv-is-the-cancer-of-film-it-s-why-peo_3188190.jpg)
