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

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.
Jack Nicholson

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

I'm not hard to get along with.
Jack Nicholson

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

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

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
Jack Nicholson

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

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
Jack Nicholson

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.
Jack Nicholson

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

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Jack Nicholson

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

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

My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
Jack Nicholson

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

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
Jack Nicholson

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson

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

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
Jack Nicholson