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Jack Nicholson
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Jack Nicholson
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 22
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I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading it's just more pollution of the airwaves.
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I don't even own a cell phone.
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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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When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.
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I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I want out of life and I like to be around other people who are also pretty secure. It just makes things easier.
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Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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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!?
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[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.
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It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.
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The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.
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Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.
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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'd prefer if people had no impressions of me. As a kid, I had to tell my own family, Please, just don't talk about me! Because they always got it wrong. Always. I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me.
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Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
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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.
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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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