414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

I don’t play golf competitively. I tell everybody that I cheat so they won’t gamble with me. That’s why you can’t watch football. Everybody’s gambling. They don’t want to watch the game; they watch the spread.

I’ve never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it’s a great job, a fine way to live your life.

There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn’t care what lie I had to tell.

I only take Viagra when I’m with more than one woman.

I’m the age where we didn’t have television as kids. So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad.

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

I’d give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I’m not in that state now and that makes me sad.