Jack Nicholson

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

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 you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

I have a lot of vanity.

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

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.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

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 Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

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 my own.

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.

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 - take two!

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.