When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing.… — 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
I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you… — 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
Believe it or not, I supported Richard Nixon on the issue of presidential privilege. How could anyone conceive of being the president… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do… — 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
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
It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion.… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where… — 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 think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this?… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives. — 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
When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them. — 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
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
A lot of people manage to find common ground and not let disagreements or tensions build up and destroy them, and other… — 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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