You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything. — 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 know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether… — 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.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
A man needs a private life. With no ability to have a private life, one thing leads to another, and before you… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I… — 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 just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
You know, I think I understand what you're like now. You're very beautiful and you think men are only interested in you… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to… — 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
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
![“It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television…” quote by Jack Nicholson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/836/jack-nicholson-1283_art_it-tv-is-the-cancer-of-film-it-s-why-peo_3188190.jpg)
