414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

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

It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.

Because of the way the business is structured, I have sometimes turned down scripts that I might otherwise have accepted had I known who was directing them.

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

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.