414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

With comedy, you have to do it right. In a drama, there's a lot of different ways to succeed in a moment. But comedy comes from reality. You can't try to be funny.

There are short parts that I as an actor am very right for. Or I just like the part. Or you need someone like me for the movie. By that I don't mean at the box office, I mean in the execution of the material.

Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

There has long been a bemoaning of the lack of opportunity to make films that are anything but explosions or the ladling on the pea soup or whatever you want to call it. You can hardly make a movie where somebody isn't a murderer or a rapist or, if it's a "Fried Green Tomatoes" that isn't some wistful thing on this, that or the other thing.

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naïveté is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

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

I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.