Quotes By Jack Nicholson

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

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.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.

One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

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

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

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

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

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

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!

I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

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

I don't even own a cell phone.

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.

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

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

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

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

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.

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.

There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.