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Once I got started acting I loved it.

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

Jack Nicholson

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

Jack Nicholson

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.

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

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

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

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

Jack Nicholson

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Jack Nicholson

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

Jack Nicholson

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

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.

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

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

Jack Nicholson

I'm not hard to get along with.

Jack Nicholson

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

Jack Nicholson

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.

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.

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

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

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.

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

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

Jack Nicholson

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

Jack Nicholson