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Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real.

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Tim Burton
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: August 25
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When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.
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I am not a dark person and I don't consider myself dark.
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I like the challenge of doing things you know that you maybe shouldn't do.
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Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.
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A journalist in America told us that we'd [with Johhny Depp] been working together for 10 decades, so we're a lot older than we look! We actually knew each other before the invention of cinema, so we have quite a good, long relationship.
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3D is great, but I just think of it as another tool, like colour or music or sound. It has the potential to add another emotional layer to certain things if you use it right. But it's not the saviour [of the movies], the be all and end all, the reason to do something.
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I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.
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I always said that I'm not into mass-marketing things. If there's one thing that looks cool, that's fine by me. I'm not interested in a whole bunch of stuff.
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There's something about taking a classic movie that people love and doing another version of that, you're setting yourself up for a mistake.
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Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?
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People told me I couldn't kill Nicholson, so I cast him in two roles and killed him off twice.
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My diagnosis, he said for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
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I'm a happy-go-lucky manic-depressive. It does get very deep and dark for me, and it gets scary at times when I feel I can't pull out of it. But I don't consider myself negative-negative. I'm positive-negative.
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I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
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One of the things that we were trying to do with this show was the complexities of relationships and love. There is both passion and longing and a bittersweet quality to it that is a part of life.
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I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.
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Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.
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Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be! Jack Skellington: *No.* [the Mayor switches to his upset face] Jack Skellington: How *jolly*! Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be.
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I always felt that Hollywood has a way of making you feel outside.
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I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches - especially when you're a child - it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.
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