If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it. — 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… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as… — 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
In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't… — 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… — 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
I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you… — 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
