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Jack Nicholson Inspirational Quotes (146)

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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I might have got a little nervous if I was alone for a day or two in a row. I might think, Where are they? Now, I just go on doing naturally what I do.
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Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created woman?
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Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.
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I've always understood money it's not a big mystical thing to me.
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I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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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.
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I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
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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.
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I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.
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I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.
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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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We live, we die, and the wheels on the bus go round and round.
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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.
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I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.
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Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
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I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.
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A man needs a private life. With no ability to have a private life, one thing leads to another, and before you know it we have Bill and Monica. We need to get real about things. Humans are humans. Why should we expect more?
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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.
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I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
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Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.
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