Jack Nicholson Quotes - Page 10

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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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• I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.

  Jack Nicholson

  Hiding Something, Breathing, Noses

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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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• 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'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

  Jack Nicholson

  Baby, Film, Wave

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• When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

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  Fun, Thinking, People

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• You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.

  Jack Nicholson

  Wake Up, Tvs, Host

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• Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

  Jack Nicholson

  Way, Lost, Made

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• I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

  Jack Nicholson

  Mistake, Responsibility, Should Have

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I don't believe that relationships are fixed things. People are necessarily complex and confused beings. We don't always do the right thing, say the right, and behave the same way or the way we always want to behave.

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  Confused, Believe, People

  Source: cinema.com

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• It [TV] is the cancer of film. It's why people can't be educated to film. In the late '60s, we expected to see a movie or two every week and be stimulated, excited and inspired. And we did. Every week after week. Antonioni, Goddard, Truffaut - this endless list of people. And then comes television and home video. I know how to work exactly for the big screen, but it doesn't matter what I think about the art of movie-making versus TV.

  Jack Nicholson

  Art, Cancer, Home

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• It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.

  Jack Nicholson

  Children, Past, People

  "COVER STORY : Still Simmering Under the Shades : Jack Nicholson remains one of Hollywood's hottest actors and talkers. So, what, if anything, has changed? You might be surprised". Interview with Hilary de Vries, articles.latimes.com. December 6, 1992.

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

  Jack Nicholson

  Equal, Persons

  "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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• There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

  Jack Nicholson

  Believe, People, Television

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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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• OK, the director makes the movie. But some movies can't get made without someone like me in them.

  Jack Nicholson

  Directors, Made, Like Me

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• Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

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  Might, Way, Scripts

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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 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 look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

  Jack Nicholson

  Directors, Looks, Likes

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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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• 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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• I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

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  Actors, Scripts, Film

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

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  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

  Jack Nicholson

  Criticism, Care, I Do Care

  "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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