414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

I've always fought against being controlled and manipulated and stomped upon by circumstances.

I’m fairly well off. I can’t poor-mouth that away from people’s sensibilities about me, which is something I worry about as an actor. But it would be real stupid of me to do something for the money.

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I’ve never had that experience. If I’m not happy with the balance, I just won’t work with that person again.

I’m very fortunate in the sense that outside of cohabitating relationships and so forth, I’ve always got on just as well with women.

You can’t handle the truth!

I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it’s alright to be happy, that you don’t have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don’t really have.

I don’t want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I’ve got the seed of it and, what’s more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.

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

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