Jack Nicholson

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

— Jack Nicholson

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

— Jack Nicholson

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

— Jack Nicholson

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

— Jack Nicholson

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

— Jack Nicholson

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

— Jack Nicholson

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

— Jack Nicholson

I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed…

— Jack Nicholson

For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which…

— Jack Nicholson

There's a tacit agreement today that the white male is the only legitimate target for any and all satire, criticism, and so…

— Jack Nicholson

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not…

— Jack Nicholson

I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do…

— Jack Nicholson

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…

— Jack Nicholson

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye. But I can't look into the eyes of…

— Jack Nicholson

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've…

— Jack Nicholson

If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If…

— Jack Nicholson

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

— Jack Nicholson

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

— Jack Nicholson

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes…

— Jack Nicholson

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

— Jack Nicholson

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

— Jack Nicholson

I've always thought basketball was the best sport, although it wasn't the sport I was best at. It was just the most…

— Jack Nicholson

On the birth of his son after having had two daughters: I finally got it right.

— Jack Nicholson

I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than…

— Jack Nicholson

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

— Jack Nicholson

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

— Jack Nicholson

I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.

— Jack Nicholson

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great "literateur" of his time.

— Jack Nicholson

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

— Jack Nicholson

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

— Jack Nicholson

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

— Jack Nicholson

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

— Jack Nicholson

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly…

— Jack Nicholson

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

— Jack Nicholson

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

— Jack Nicholson

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

— Jack Nicholson

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

— Jack Nicholson

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard…

— Jack Nicholson

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

— Jack Nicholson

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

— Jack Nicholson