Jack Nicholson Quotes

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• If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't…
• In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough…
• Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
• There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
• When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
• I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been…
• It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character…
• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or…
• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time…
• I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has…
• If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to…
• In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's…
• My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think…
• One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under…
• 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 to do. It's…
• When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and…
• When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.
• You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
• My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a bitch.
• Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

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