Quote

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

Jack Nicholson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jack Nicholson
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 22
Actor
Art Collector
Character Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
Neptune
New Jersey
John Joseph Nicholson
Thinking
Walk
Walks
Security
Ability
Away
Used
Great
Think
Signs

More quotes by Jack Nicholson

Image
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!?
Jack Nicholson
Image
Believe it or not, I supported Richard Nixon on the issue of presidential privilege. How could anyone conceive of being the president of the United States and think that every single thing that you say or do can become a part of the public record? It just seems so stupid to me.
Jack Nicholson
Image
When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.
Jack Nicholson
Image
The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
Jack Nicholson
Image
There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material.
Jack Nicholson
Image
If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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
Image
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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?
Jack Nicholson
Image
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.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I've always understood money it's not a big mystical thing to me.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
Jack Nicholson
Image
As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.
Jack Nicholson
Image
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman.
Jack Nicholson
Image
In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
Jack Nicholson