I’m content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That’s what I’ve always worried about: that I wouldn’t try hard enough.
JACK NICHOLSONPlayed 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.
More Jack Nicholson Quotes
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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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Well, I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I haven’t been a rogue most of my life.
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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 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!
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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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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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Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
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Early on, if I was alone two-three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don’t love.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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Acting is everybody’s favorite second job.
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The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
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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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