Nicholson Quotes

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  With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

  Jack Nicholson

  Sunglasses, Fats

  "The summer 2015 sunglasses rules - six essential style tips" by Hannah Marriott, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2015.

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• New Jersey is a great place to live. And we have given some of the best talent to the world, from Jack Nicholson, John Travolta, to Jerry Lewis to Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra.

  Queen Latifah

  World, Jersey, Talent

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• I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece.

  Linda Blair

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Interview With the Exorcist's Linda Blair". www.ign.com. September 17, 2000.

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• Living and working for four decades in a Bologna apartment and studio he shared with his unwed sisters, Morandi painted little but bottles, boxes, jars, and vases. Yet like that of Chardin and the underappreciated William Nicholson, Morandi's work seems to slow down time and show you things you've never seen before.

  Jerry Saltz

  Bottles, Four, Littles

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• I had twelve years as a Tottenham player under Bill Nicholson and could not have wished to have played for a better manager. I can still hear his wise words in my head when I am out on the training ground as a manager myself.

  Joe Kinnear

  Wise, Player, Years

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• Working with Jack [Nicholson] is sort of like standing in front of the Grand Canyon.

  Diane Keaton

  Canyons, Grand Canyon, Standing

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• Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing.

  Marlon Brando

  Men, Numbers, May

  "The Only Contender". Book by Gary Carey, 1979.

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• Jack Nicholson is a hero of mine.

  Joseph Morgan

  Hero, Mines

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2011

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• I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.

  Ray Wise

  Devil, Rays, Fans

  "Random Roles: Ray Wise". Interview with Steven Hyden, tv.avclub.com. December 04, 2008.

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• I was never really a character actor - I was a leading man who was always cast as a character. I wanted to be Jack Nicholson or Jean Gabin.

  Robert Shaw

  Character, Men, Actors

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• Take characters that Nicholson or De Niro play: they're not always tough

  Tom Berenger

  Character, Play, Tough

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• I walked out and Jack Nicholson was sitting about six feet away, so I avoided that area and I looked up at the balcony in the back and sang the song.

  Elliott Smith

  Song, Feet, Sitting

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• I am like the Jack Nicholson of the Kings - every single game. If there was a game tonight I wouldn't be here. I used to play hockey. That was my original thing. My first thing, I wanted to play professional hockey

  Rob Zombie

  Kings, Hockey, Games

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• I aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• [That night] I was sitting by Jack Nicholson with my long list of thanks, and I said, `I'm so nervous. I don't know what to say if I go up there.' He said, `Don't get emotional, drop the names, and dedicate it to your mother.'

  Javier Bardem

  Mom, Mother, Emotional

  "The Lover: Javier Bardem" by Holly Millea, www.elle.com. July 15, 2010.

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• So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!

  Stephen King

  Crash, Bash, Gardener

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• People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.

  Tim Burton

  Motivational, Two, People

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• Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

  Tim Burton

  Real, Actors, Pushing

  Tim Burton, Kristian Fraga (2005). “Tim Burton: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

  Charles Dance

  Romantic, Men, Landing

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• I was in an acting class taught by Eric Morris, and Jack Nicholson was in the class. He wrote the script for 'Head', so all of us in the class got little tiny parts in the movie.

  Teri Garr

  Class, Acting, Eric

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. July 22, 2008.

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• Some of the greatest actors have turned superheroes into a serious business: Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson in Batman; Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart, the first venerable knights of the X-Men, who have now passed the baton to Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Men, Knights, Superhero

  "Superheroes movies like Avengers Assemble should not be scorned" by Tom Hiddleston, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2012.

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• And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

  Keanu Reeves

  Beautiful, Dream, Scripts

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• You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nicholson. 'Well, if Sven dreamed tonight that his dog died, he'd have a very, very bad night's sleep, because he's very fond of that dog. But when he woke up in the morning, everything would be all right. He'd know it was only a dream.' Nicholson nodded. 'What's the point exactly?' The point is if his dog really died, it would be exactly the same thing. Only he wouldn't know it. I mean he wouldn't wake up till he died himself.

  J. D. Salinger

  Dream, Dog, Morning

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• Listening to people espouse beliefs different from mine is informative, not threatening, because the only thing that can alter my worldview is a new and undeniable truth, and contrary to what Jack Nicholson says in 'A Few Good Men', "I CAN handle the truth.

  Michael J. Fox

  Men, People, Good Man

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• My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

  David Bailey

  My Friends, Megalomaniacs

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