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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.

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Jack Nicholson
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: April 22
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Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.
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In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.
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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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Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.
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I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.
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Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.
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I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.
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When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.
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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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I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.
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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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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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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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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.
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I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.
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Do you think God knew what he was doing when he created woman?
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