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
Age is the first limitation on roles that I’ve ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago. — Jack Nicholson
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide. — 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 sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn’t repeat a success. — 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 an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30’s. — Jack Nicholson
My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. — Jack Nicholson
Once you’ve been really bad in a movie, there’s a certain kind of fearlessness you develop. — Jack Nicholson
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television. — Jack Nicholson
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We’re in a race against time, until we run out of money. — Jack Nicholson
Well, I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I haven’t been a rogue most of my life. — Jack Nicholson