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

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Jack Nicholson
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 22
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John Joseph Nicholson
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My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal system and corrupting the police system.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
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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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I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.
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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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When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.
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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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Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great literateur of his time.
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Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.
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Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?
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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.
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If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.
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And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him.
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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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That's what I like about the movie business: you're always in contact with wonderful and interesting people.
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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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Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?
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You can't handle the truth!
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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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