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 NICHOLSONIf 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 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.
JACK NICHOLSONEarly on, if I was alone two-three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.
JACK NICHOLSONWith my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.
JACK NICHOLSONBeer, it’s the best damn drink in the world.
JACK NICHOLSONA lot of people can’t remember things because they weren’t actually there to begin with – they don’t take it all in.
JACK NICHOLSONI’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 NICHOLSONI can’t hit on women in public any more. I didn’t decide this; it just doesn’t feel right at my age.
JACK NICHOLSONI don’t think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
JACK NICHOLSONWell, I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I haven’t been a rogue most of my life.
JACK NICHOLSONThe minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
JACK NICHOLSONThere were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I’m not in that state now and that makes me sad.
JACK NICHOLSONDon’t ever give anybody your best advice, because they’re not going to follow it.
JACK NICHOLSONWell, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don’t love.
JACK NICHOLSONFrankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
JACK NICHOLSONActing is everybody’s favorite second job.
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