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Jack Nicholson
April 22, 1937 -
Nationality: American
Category: Actor
Subcategory: American Actor

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

   

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

   

I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

   

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

   

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

   

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

   

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

   

I'm not hard to get along with.

   

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails.

   

I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.

   

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

   

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.

   

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

   

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

   

When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.

   

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.

   

I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.

   

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