Quotes By Jack Nicholson

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

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!

I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

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.

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

I don't even own a cell phone.

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.

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

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

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

Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

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.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

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

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.

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