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
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this?… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Once you've been really 'bad' in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody… — 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 Image
Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
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 Image
The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
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 Image