Jack Nicholson Quotes - Page 9

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• Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

  Jack Nicholson

  Actresses, Very Good

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• I'm in the movie business; it's meant to be very cutthroat. But you won't find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

  Jack Nicholson

  Cheated, I Cheated, Meant To Be

  Source: the-talks.com

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• The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I decided I didn't want to make my living depressing people or making them go home sick, so I just decided I wanted to do comedy for a while and study it for a while. It doesn't mean everybody should do that, but that was my reaction.

  Jack Nicholson

  Depressing, Home, Mean

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• I come from the Lynchs of Sligo. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynches in Sligo.

  Jack Nicholson

  Book, Phones, Nine

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• I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.

  Jack Nicholson

  Art, Different, Looks

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• That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.

  Jack Nicholson

  People, Interesting, Wonderful

  Source: www.gamesradar.com

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• There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

  Jack Nicholson

  Lying, People, Influence

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• 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

  Crazy, Real, Thinking

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• 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

  Player, Years, Tennis

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• I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

  Jack Nicholson

  Bigs, Mystical, Understood

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

  Jack Nicholson

  School, Awards, Pimples

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• Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.

  Jack Nicholson

  Kind, Film, Bigs

  Source: the-talks.com

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• I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

  Jack Nicholson

  Nuts, Oscars, Prove

  Jack Nicholson's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 29, 1976.

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• I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.

  Jack Nicholson

  Stars, Quality, Alive

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• I'm not hard to get along with.

  Jack Nicholson

  Hard

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• I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.

  Jack Nicholson

  Believe, Six Months, Forget

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I don't remember if I've been asked seriously to direct a picture. I understand that. I'm very good business for people as an actor and perhaps they'd rather I didn't.

  Jack Nicholson

  People, Actors, Remember

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?

  Jack Nicholson

  Beer, Mules, Enough

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• Son, we live in a world that has walls and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You!?

  Jack Nicholson

  Wall, Son, Gun

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• Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

  Jack Nicholson

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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

  Jack Nicholson

  Jobs, Ability, Know How

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• 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

  Movie, Thinking, Lunch

  "Jack Nicholson: 'I have a sweet spot for what's attractive to me'". Interview with Dana Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2002.

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• 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

  Movie, Thinking, Interesting

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

  Jack Nicholson

  Jobs, Careers, Actors

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• I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

  Jack Nicholson

  Reading, Thinking, Blood

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