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Jack Nicholson Inspirational Quotes (146)

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Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.
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I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I want out of life and I like to be around other people who are also pretty secure. It just makes things easier.
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I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
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Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.
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For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
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I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.
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Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
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In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.
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I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.
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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!?
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One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.
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If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.
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If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.
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Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.
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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.
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