Jack Nicholson Quotes

• We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We’re in a race against time, until we run out of money.

  Jack Nicholson

• There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

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• The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.

  Jack Nicholson

• The blues and jazz will live forever… So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

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• People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

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• Once you’ve been really bad in a movie, there’s a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

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• 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 that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

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

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• Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

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• 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 that I’m playing.

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• 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 on my nails.

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• 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 crazy to think of any form where it’s just one way.

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• In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

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

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• I’m the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

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• I’m not hard to get along with.

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• I’m Irish. I think about death all the time.

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• 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 wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

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• I’m a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

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Jack Nicholson (81)

Birth:	22nd April, 1937
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson was born in Neptune City, New Jersey, USA. He is an American actor, film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for playing a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including satirical comedy, romance and dark portrayals of antiheroes and psychopathic characters. Nicholson's 12 Academy Award nominations make him the most nominated male actor in the Academy's history. His role in several films include: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest(won the Academy Award for Best Actor), As Good as It Gets(won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Terms of Endearment(won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor), Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown, The Passenger, Reds, The Shining, Batman, The Departed, A Few Good Men, The Pledge, About Schmidt, Flight to Fury, Ride in the Whirlwind, The Shooting, Goin' South(also director), and The Two Jakes(also director). He has written several films include: Flight to Fury, Ride in the Whirlwind, The Trip, and Drive, He Said. He produced several films include: Ride in the Whirlwind, The Shooting, and Drive, He Said(also director).

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