Quote

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great literateur of his time.

Jack Nicholson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Great
Believe
Permutations
Time
Youthful
Poetry
Actor
Came
Actors
Film

More quotes by Jack Nicholson

Image
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.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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
Image
Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren't always exactly what we want or need.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Many actors will try something different once, but if it isn't a box office success they'll never do it again. In my opinion, there's no point in going on with this job if you do the same thing over and over again.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I have given a name to my pain, and it is Batman.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I have a lot of vanity.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.
Jack Nicholson
Image
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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
Image
Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?
Jack Nicholson
Image
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Take caution in your tone, commander. I'm a fair man, but this -- heat is making me absolutely crazy.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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
Image
I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Jack Nicholson