414 Quotes by Jack Nicholson

I’m in the movie business; it’s meant to be very cutthroat. But you won’t find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.

A lot of people can’t remember things because they weren’t actually there to begin with – they don’t take it all in.

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It’s sure been tough on my nails.

Once you’ve been really ‘bad’ in a movie, there’s a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.

I’m not hard to get along with.

I wasn’t a babe in the woods. I’d watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I’d seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer’s quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.

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

I can’t hit on women in public any more. I didn’t decide this; it just doesn’t feel right at my age.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.