Quotes by Jack Nicholson

About Jack Nicholson:

John Joseph "Jack" Nicholson is a multiple Oscar-winning American actor and filmmaker, having performed for nearly 60 years. He is one of America's most intriguing, popular and versatile screen personalities, capable of playing a wide range of starring or supporting roles. Past roles have included satirical comedy, romance and dark portrayals of excitable and psychopathic characters. In many of his films he played the "eternal outsider, the sardonic drifter," and someone who rebels against the social structure.
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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.

Jack Nicholson

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Jack Nicholson

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

Jack Nicholson

You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.

Jack Nicholson

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

Jack Nicholson

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

Jack Nicholson

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

Jack Nicholson

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

Jack Nicholson

Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.

Jack Nicholson

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

Jack Nicholson

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Jack Nicholson

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

Jack Nicholson

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

Jack Nicholson

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

Jack Nicholson

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

I'm definitely still wild at heart.

Jack Nicholson

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

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

Jack Nicholson

The camera photographs what's there.

Jack Nicholson

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

Jack Nicholson

Once I got started acting I loved it.

Jack Nicholson

Author Bio

  • NameJack Nicholson
  • DescriptionAmerican actor, film director, producer, and writer
  • BornApril 22, 1937
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Art Collector; Gofer; Film Director; Screenwriter; Film Producer
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor; Academy Award For Best Supporting Actor; Academy Award For Best Actor; Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award