Quotes By Jack Nicholson

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's ALL that counts.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

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

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

My motto is: more good times.

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

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

I'm definitely still wild at heart.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

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

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.

Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

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

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

I'm not hard to get along with.

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.