If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend. — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police. — 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
One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
On the birth of his son after having had two daughters: I finally got it right. — 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
In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's… — 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