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Jack Nicholson talks about how freedom can be squeezed by politics and even by how society treats sexuality and illness. He also jokes that a celebrity meets far more people in a year than most people ever do, and he says the only folks you can safely lie to are the police and a girlfriend.

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The less people know about me, the easier my job is.

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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

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A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

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I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

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Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

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People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

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I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

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There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying…

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Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember,…

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I'm fairly well off. I can't poor-mouth that away from people's sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an…

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That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

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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…

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Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or…

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It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy.

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The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I…

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It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's…

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It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion.…

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I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I…

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I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing,…

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I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't…

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The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish…

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Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's…

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I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now. It's an old cliche, I…

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It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to…

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I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.

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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

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A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach…

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When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of…

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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically…

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I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

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I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I…

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A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other…

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Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

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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…

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

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…

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.

I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.

Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are…

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…