Jack Nicholson quotes Oscar win for 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) Born: 04/22/1937 Country: usa

• A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear. (Jack Nicholson) [movie/time/people/approach]
• My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch. (Jack Nicholson) [mother/irony]
• Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile. (Jack Nicholson) [people/remember/smile]
• Just let the wardrobe do the acting. (Jack Nicholson)
• A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear. (Jack Nicholson) [movie/time/people/approach]
• Acting is everybody's favorite second job (Jack Nicholson)
• Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago. (Jack Nicholson)
• 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)
• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. (Jack Nicholson)
• Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. (Jack Nicholson)
• Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially. (Jack Nicholson)
• Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot. (Jack Nicholson)
• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. (Jack Nicholson)
• I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation. (Jack Nicholson)
• I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor. (Jack Nicholson)
• I have a lot of vanity. (Jack Nicholson)
• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do. (Jack Nicholson)
• I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself. (Jack Nicholson)
• 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)
• I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman. (Jack Nicholson)
• I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped. (Jack Nicholson)
• 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)
• I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away. (Jack Nicholson)
• I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it. (Jack Nicholson)
• I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film (Jack Nicholson)
• I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled. (Jack Nicholson)
• I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. (Jack Nicholson)
• I'm not hard to get along with. (Jack Nicholson)
• I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy. (Jack Nicholson)
• I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny. (Jack Nicholson)
• I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them. (Jack Nicholson)

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