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 average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life. - Jack Nicholson
There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material. - Jack Nicholson
There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing. - Jack Nicholson
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television. - Jack Nicholson
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
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. - Jack Nicholson
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend. - Jack Nicholson
Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey. - Jack Nicholson
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. - Jack Nicholson
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. - 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
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. - Jack Nicholson
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun. - Jack Nicholson
When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award. - Jack Nicholson
When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature! - Jack Nicholson
With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny. - Jack Nicholson
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