Latest Jack Nicholson Quotes from Interviews

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• Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

  Jack Nicholson

  Trying, Interviews, Problem

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.

  Jack Nicholson

  Wells, Fortunate

  Source: www.esquire.com

• The less people know about me, the easier my job is.

  Jack Nicholson

  Jobs, People, Easier

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

  Jack Nicholson

  Cute, Mind, Directors

  Source: www.esquire.com

• For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.

  Jack Nicholson

  Crazy, Thinking, Luxury

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I don't play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won't gamble with me. That's why you can't watch football. Everybody's gambling. They don't want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

  Jack Nicholson

  Football, Golf, Gambling

  Source: www.esquire.com

• 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

• Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

  Jack Nicholson

  America, World, Liberalism

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.

  Jack Nicholson

  Children, Abortion, May

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

  Jack Nicholson

  Religious, Praying, Being Human

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

  Jack Nicholson

  Belief, Live In The Now

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

  Jack Nicholson

  Believe, People, Envy

  Source: www.esquire.com

• Comedy is more difficult. You can look at scenes when you're doing a drama like, “Maybe it works,” but in comedy, when you're doing it, either it works or it doesn't. You have to keep doing it until it does, and the requirement is more.

  Jack Nicholson

  Drama, Doe, Looks

  Source: movies.about.com

• 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

• When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

  Jack Nicholson

  Regret, Looks, Might

  Source: the-talks.com

• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

  Jack Nicholson

  Jobs, Way, Pennies

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle.

  Jack Nicholson

  Real, Thinking, Circles

  Source: the-talks.com

• If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you.

  Jack Nicholson

  Couple, Might, Individual

  Source: the-talks.com

• 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

• Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

  Jack Nicholson

  Motorcycle Gangs, Shy, Get Real

  Source: the-talks.com

• When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thinking, Actors, Ears

  Source: the-talks.com

• I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that.

  Jack Nicholson

  Style, Would Be, Needs

  Source: the-talks.com

• 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

• You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

  Jack Nicholson

  Thoughtful, Numbers, Age

  Source: the-talks.com

• I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

  Jack Nicholson

  Sports, Philosophy, Thinking

  Source: www.esquire.com