Jack Nicholson Quotes - Page 2

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.

My motto is: more good times.

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

I think it's good if a man gives a woman some time to herself because I think we all need that and we can all benefit from that. It doesn't imply a rejection of the other person, just a sense that because we do have our separate identities, sometimes you have to be less involved in another person's life or need to have that other person be less involved in your life.

It's difficult for people sometimes to recognise when they're happy. People sometimes seem to me to be afraid to be happy.

You can follow the action, which gets you good pictures. You can follow your instincts, which will probably get you in trouble. Or, you can follow the money, which nine times out of ten will get you closer to the truth.

You can't handle the truth!

You're anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren't going to have any effect on anything.

I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.

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.

I don't even own a cell phone.

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

I think human beings have a basic instinct to be free and explore their world in their own way. I've always been driven to look at life as something which we should try to plunge into rather than sit back. You have to be able to have fun and keep creating a sense of excitement to how you approach the world.

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.

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

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

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

You are more thoughtful because you don't act as quickly anymore. When I turned 70 it was the first time I felt young for my age. Fifty dropped on me like a ton of bricks - there is something about that number - but when 70 came along I felt good about it.

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.

If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.

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