Jack Nicholson Quotes
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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 influenced in some way by all of them.
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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 you use to fill up a regular scene.
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As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.
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Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
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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 people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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Once I got started acting I loved it.
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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 remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.
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I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
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I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.
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I'm not hard to get along with.
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You can call me Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier.
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Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
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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 it without fear.
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I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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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 whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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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 salary, so I didn't.
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If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.
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I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.
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There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.
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I'm definitely still wild at heart.
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I have a lot of vanity.
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The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.
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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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