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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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• The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

  Jack Nicholson

  Sports, Fans, Fuel

  Source: www.esquire.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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• 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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• 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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• There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie today where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.

  Jack Nicholson

  Opportunity, Long, Tomatoes

  "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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• 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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• I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.

  Jack Nicholson

  Sports, Cheer, School

  Source: www.esquire.com

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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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• 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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• 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

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• Charlize Theron and Cate Blanchett are very good actresses.

  Jack Nicholson

  Actresses, Very Good

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

  Jack Nicholson

  Way, Lost, Made

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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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• 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

  Congratulations, Firsts, First Time

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• If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

  Jack Nicholson

  Want, Dinner, Chance

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

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

  Jack Nicholson

  Beer, Mules, Enough

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• I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

  Jack Nicholson

  Believe, Envy, Soothing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Heart, Thinking, People

  "Happy birthday Jack Nicholson: A picture tribute to Hollywood's greatest vintage rogue as he celebrates turning 75" by Rob Leigh, www.mirror.co.uk. April 22, 2012.

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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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• 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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