414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

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

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

Everybody said I was good, but being known and not having a big film success is almost tougher than being completely new. It just kind of turned my life around and was definitely a highlight.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

At 55 I said the probability is I won't have another relationship. I just didn't want to start another family. Between my own bizarre criteria and taste and the fact that I'm not available for many things I thought it was unlikely. Once you know the science about it, I don't think anybody should consider being committed to a real eternal relationship until you're through something called the infatuation circle.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.