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I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.

Jack Nicholson

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Jack Nicholson
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 22
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John Joseph Nicholson
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I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can't do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I'm very interested in life and you don't want to lose that.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
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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?
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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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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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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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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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Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.
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For an actor, style comes last. You first have to implement the whole thing, but your style comes from the subconscious, which is the best part an actor brings to his work.
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I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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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.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.
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Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey.
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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