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"50 Jack Nicholson Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 22 April 1937 | Actor | Filmmaker |
The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
Believe Dead I Believe Learning
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

Actor Actually Good Know
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Beer Best Damn Drink
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

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

Age Awhile Encounter Ever
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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.

Actor Basically Because Deep
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

About Alone Early Nights
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

Around Financially Know Lost
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
Because Frankly Got Like
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

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

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

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

Hollywood Learned Long Long Time
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

About Always Counterproductive Got
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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.

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

Ability Away Great Just
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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.

Advice Anybody Because Best
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I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

Baby Film Foreign Got
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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.

Actor Bald Early Else
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
About Death I Think Irish
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I'm not hard to get along with.
Along Get Hard With
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

Academy Feel Guy Last
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

Bad Been Like Many
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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.

Able Artists Because Been
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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.

Actor Any Be Real Could
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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.

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

Actor Career Early Get
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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.

About Available Base Because
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

Anybody Fight Girlfriend Love
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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.

Almost Almost Everyone Everyone Me
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Been Going Here Life
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Acting Just Wardrobe Let
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

Girlfriend Lie Life Only
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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.

Against Fast Going Money
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

Fat Jack Jack Nicholson Nicholson
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Big Blues Delta Easy
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Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

Bad Been Certain Develop
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

Award Earned Every High
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What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
Beautiful Counts Pal That
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

Believe Get Know On-Screen
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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.

Back Class Half Last
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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.

Approach Bomb Fear Got
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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.

Been Industry Ladder Nails
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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 - take two!

Follow Get How Impulse
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

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

About Complain Even Life
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My motto is: more good times.
Good Good Times More Motto
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I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

Age Any Decide Feel
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Felt Irresistible Life Makes
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

Chance Everything Everywhere Go
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Jack Nicholson Quotes & Sayings