Jack Nicholson

Actor, Filmmaker

Jack Nicholson is an acclaimed actor known for his powerful performances in films like 'The Shining' and 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'.

Born
April 22, 1937
Quotes
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"It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward."

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"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."

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"When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!"

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"I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter. I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life."

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"I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life."

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"If it is difficult to know yourself as an individual, it seems to be more complex as a couple. So if you say, "Oh I like a person who is like this and that," you might take away the possibility of seeing the only one that might be right for you."

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"You can call me Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier."

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"In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right."

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"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."

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"Women -- a mistake, or did He do it to us on purpose?"

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"I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives."

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

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"I'm against cronyism, and I had to learn that early on. Like, I don't have an entourage, because I saw the negative effects of those things."

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"The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit."

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"There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward."

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"No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human."

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"I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth."

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"I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost."

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"I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today."

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