414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

Life doesn't have to be about finding Osama bin Laden or becoming the president of the United States. Life is about the little things, which is one of the things you learn when you get older.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

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

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

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

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

On the birth of his son after having had two daughters: I finally got it right.

I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.