Zitat des Tages von Jack Nicholson:
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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.
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.
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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.
I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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.
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
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.
I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.
I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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.
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.
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
I'm not hard to get along with.
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
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 don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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.
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.
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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.
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.