Jack Nicholson

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.-Jack Nicholson

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

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.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

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.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

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.

If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.

My motto is: more good times.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

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.

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.