Quote

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.

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
Loses
Autonomy
Particular
Disappointed
Real
Disappointment
World
Effect
Argument
Begin
Effects
Lose

More quotes by Jack Nicholson

Image
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.
Jack Nicholson
Image
You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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.
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
I'm very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I've always got on just as well with women.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Sometimes a bit of distance can be very healthy. You can go away by yourself on a trip and come back very glad to be with your partner because you've cleared your head out of all the negativity.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do
Jack Nicholson
Image
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I might have got a little nervous if I was alone for a day or two in a row. I might think, Where are they? Now, I just go on doing naturally what I do.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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.
Jack Nicholson
Image
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.
Jack Nicholson
Image
He [Castro] is a genius. We spoke about everything.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.
Jack Nicholson
Image
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.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.
Jack Nicholson
Image
You make me want to be a better man.
Jack Nicholson