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There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.

Jack Nicholson

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Jack Nicholson
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 22
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