Quotes By Jack Nicholson

My motto is: more good times.

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

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.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

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

I'm definitely still wild at heart.

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

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

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

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'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.

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

I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.

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

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.

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

I'm not hard to get along with.

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

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.

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

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

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

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.

I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.