Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Jack Nicholson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Bombs
Time
Star
Like
Approach
People
Movie
Stars
Actors
Fear
Bomb
Without
More quotes by Jack Nicholson
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.
Jack Nicholson
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.
Jack Nicholson
I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.
Jack Nicholson
For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy! But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude.
Jack Nicholson
The less people know about me, the easier my job is.
Jack Nicholson
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
Jack Nicholson
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.
Jack Nicholson
I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have.
Jack Nicholson
My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.
Jack Nicholson
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.
Jack Nicholson
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do
Jack Nicholson
If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.
Jack Nicholson
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.
Jack Nicholson
I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.
Jack Nicholson
You make me want to be a better man.
Jack Nicholson
Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.
Jack Nicholson
With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.
Jack Nicholson
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
Jack Nicholson
Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
Jack Nicholson
[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.
Jack Nicholson