Close Ears Quotes by Jack Nicholson

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

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

— Jack Nicholson

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

— Jack Nicholson

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

— Jack Nicholson

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

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

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

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

— Jack Nicholson

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

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

— Jack Nicholson

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

— Jack Nicholson

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

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

— Jack Nicholson

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

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