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!
JACK NICHOLSONEarly on, if I was alone two-three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.
More Jack Nicholson Quotes
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that a while ago.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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Don’t ever give anybody your best advice, because they’re not going to follow it.
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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.
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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, behaviourally wild, and it’s crazy to think of any form where it’s just one way.
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With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.
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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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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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Beer, it’s the best damn drink in the world.
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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.
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A lot of people can’t remember things because they weren’t actually there to begin with – they don’t take it all in.
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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.
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I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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