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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.

Jack Nicholson

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 NICHOLSON

Decent Effort Personality Worry
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
JACK NICHOLSON

Amount Celebrity Meet People Person
Well, I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I haven’t been a rogue most of my life.
JACK NICHOLSON

Life Pretend Rogue
Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that a while ago.
JACK NICHOLSON

Age Birthday Encounter Hit Limitation
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 NICHOLSON

Follow Impulse Scene Wrong
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
JACK NICHOLSON

Ability Security Sign Thinking
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.
JACK NICHOLSON

Actor Behaviour Real Wild
With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.
JACK NICHOLSON

Fat Funny Sunglass
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.
JACK NICHOLSON

Imagination People Play Stretch Trouble
Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
JACK NICHOLSON

Actor Movie
Early on, if I was alone two-three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.
JACK NICHOLSON

Alone Night Poem Suicide Writing
Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don’t love.
JACK NICHOLSON

Fight Girlfriend Love
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
JACK NICHOLSON

Acting Wardrobe
Acting is everybody’s favorite second job.
JACK NICHOLSON

Acting Favorite Job
The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
JACK NICHOLSON

Believe Dead Knowledge Learn
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.
JACK NICHOLSON

Improvement Player Tennis

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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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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