414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That’s what America did for the world.

When they say I’m a great actor, I close my ears because it’s not good for you to think that way.

I’m such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I’m a good person, a good professional. But it’s nice to be noticed a little bit, ain’t it?

In other words, I wouldn’t like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it’s crazy to think of any form where it’s just one way.

Kids are life’s only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

I hate giving advice, because people won’t take it.

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.

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!

The camera photographs what’s there.