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 NICHOLSONWell, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don’t love.
JACK NICHOLSONIf men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
JACK NICHOLSONThere’s only two people in your life you should lie to… the police and your girlfriend.
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 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 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 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 NICHOLSONJust let the wardrobe do the acting.
JACK NICHOLSONActing is everybody’s favorite second job.
JACK NICHOLSONThe minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
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 NICHOLSONA star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
JACK NICHOLSONDon’t ever give anybody your best advice, because they’re not going to follow it.
JACK NICHOLSONBeer, it’s the best damn drink in the world.
JACK NICHOLSONIn 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