Quote

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

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
Manipulated
Fought
Controlled
Circumstances
Upon
Always
Stomped

More quotes by Jack Nicholson

Image
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.
Jack Nicholson
Image
As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.
Jack Nicholson
Image
The less people know about me, the easier my job is.
Jack Nicholson
Image
As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?
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
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.
Jack Nicholson
Image
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
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 think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.
Jack Nicholson
Image
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson
Image
I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.
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
Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.
Jack Nicholson
Image
Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.
Jack Nicholson
Image
You can't handle the truth!
Jack Nicholson