There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie today… — 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
Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy. — 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 you are… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
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 Image