414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

I think it's good if a man gives a woman some time to herself because I think we all need that and we can all benefit from that. It doesn't imply a rejection of the other person, just a sense that because we do have our separate identities, sometimes you have to be less involved in another person's life or need to have that other person be less involved in your life.

In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old. But life has taught me that there have been a lot of things that I didn't know.

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

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.

When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye. But I can't look into the eyes of everyone who wants to look into mine; I can't emotionally cope with that kind of volume. Sunglasses are part of my armor.

I love women who have a strong sense of themselves because I know I have a pretty good idea of what I want out of life and I like to be around other people who are also pretty secure. It just makes things easier.

I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.