Once you've been really 'bad' in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach… — 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
When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up… — 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
You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. 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
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
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