Quotes By Jack Nicholson

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.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

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.

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 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.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

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

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

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.