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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
Jack Nicholson
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Jack Nicholson
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 22
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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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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 always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
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I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.
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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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If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.
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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 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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Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.
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[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do
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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 love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
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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.
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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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