I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye. But I can't look into the eyes of… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, Maybe it works, but in comedy, when… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been… — 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
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
