Jack Nicholson Quotes

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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.
• The camera photographs what's there.
• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
• Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles…
• The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
• I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who…
• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I…
• I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
• The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
• What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's ALL that counts.
• Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
• I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on…
• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
• A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
• Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
• I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
• I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
• I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
• I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

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