Author Profile
Jack Nicholson
1937 • American • Actor
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesI 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.— Jack Nicholson
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.— Jack Nicholson
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.— Jack Nicholson
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.— Jack Nicholson
I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.— Jack Nicholson
I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.— Jack Nicholson
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.— Jack Nicholson
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.— Jack Nicholson
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.— Jack Nicholson
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.— Jack Nicholson
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.— Jack Nicholson
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.— Jack Nicholson