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Jack Nicholson
American
Actor
Born:
Apr 22
,
1937
Life
Like
People
Think
Time
You
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Jack Nicholson
Best
Beer
World
Damn
Drink
The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.
Jack Nicholson
You
Learning
Believe
Minute
Dead
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
Jack Nicholson
Sunglasses
Without
Jack
Jack Nicholson
Them
Nicholson
Fat
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
Jack Nicholson
Best
You
Advice
Tell
One Thing
Follow
Give
Because
Going
Anybody
Your
Ever
Thing
I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
Jack Nicholson
Hate
People
Giving
Advice
Take
Because
Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
Jack Nicholson
Love
Me
Relationship
You
Fight
Once
Girlfriend
Never
Well
Anybody
Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.
Jack Nicholson
Me
You
Heart
People
Illusion
Young
Down
Live
Think
Know
Because
Said
Still
Up-And-Coming
Done
Young Actor
Deep
Actor
Basically
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
Jack Nicholson
Women
Men
Everything
Everywhere
See
Go
Chance
Honest
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
Jack Nicholson
Life
My Life
Sit
Pretend
Most
Well
Been
Rogue
Going
Here
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
Jack Nicholson
Great
Walk
Signs
Think
Security
Ability
Just
Used
Away
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.
Jack Nicholson
Crazy
Words
Think
Other
Wild
Way
Be Real
One-Way
Only
Could
Like
Real
Get
Any
Just
Where
Form
In Other Words
Just One
If I Could
Actor
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
Jack Nicholson
Love
Happy
Fool
Everybody
Almost
The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
Jack Nicholson
Life
People
Year
Meets
Entire
Entire Life
Ten
Ten Times
His
Times
Celebrity
Person
Average
Average Person
Amount
One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.
Jack Nicholson
Good
Day
School
Parents
Summer
All Day
Kids
Would
School Friends
Course
Score
Friends
Bunch
Owned
Us
Play
Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson
You
Once
Kind
Bad
Fearlessness
Develop
Been
Movie
Really
Certain
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
Jack Nicholson
Will
Big
Jazz
Live
Easy
Delta
Forever
Blues
I'm definitely still wild at heart.
Jack Nicholson
Heart
Wild
Definitely
Still
I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.
Jack Nicholson
Care
Criticism
About
Like
Much
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.
Jack Nicholson
Work
Director
Thought
Become
Whatever
Own
Control
Otherwise
Out
Prone
My Own
More
Come
Concept
Because
Go
Up
Than
Going
Maybe
Just
Want
Against
Them
Who
Fun
Agree
Actor
I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
Jack Nicholson
Director
Walk
Relax
Job
Thinking
Worry
Says
About
Take
Disappears
How
Doing
Roll
Going
Happening
Then
Moment
Even
Sudden
Set
Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
Jack Nicholson
Job
Everybody
Favorite
Acting
Second
Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
Jack Nicholson
Money
Made
Lost
Way
Financially
Know
Around
I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.
Jack Nicholson
Life
Marriage
Thought
Young
Think
Relationships
Married
About
Never
Had
Counterproductive
Policy
Always
Got
Very
Theory
I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.
Jack Nicholson
Science
Human Being
Think
Dramatic
Melodrama
Distinguishes
About
Simply
Device
Science Fiction
Audience
Human
Just
Being
Fiction
Movies
Much
Really
Appealing
Now
I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
Jack Nicholson
Baby
Wave
New
Got
Foreign
Stimulated
Very
Film
I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
Jack Nicholson
Penny
Too
Bad
Like
Been
Places
Many
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