414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

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.

Staying together is a challenge. We all have to accept qualities in other people that aren’t always exactly what we want or need.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We’re in a race against time, until we run out of money.

I love the company of people. I always have and always will, it comes with my family. But earlier in life I might have got a little nervous if I was alone for a day or two in a row. I might think, “Where are they?” Now, I just go on doing naturally what I do.

I love working with women directors. They don’t mind making you cute.

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

I’ve been too many places. I’m like the bad penny.

I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don’t.