"I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye. But I can't look into the eyes of everyone who wants to look into mine; I can't emotionally cope with that kind of volume. Sunglasses are part of my armor."
"The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am."
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Source: Jack Nicholson's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 29, 1976.
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