Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson
John Joseph "Jack" Nicholsonis an American actor and filmmaker, having performed for nearly 60 years. He is known for playing a wide range of starring or supporting roles, including satirical comedy, romance and dark portrayals of excitable and psychopathic characters. In many of his films, he has played the "eternal outsider, the sardonic drifter", and someone who rebels against the social structure...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth22 April 1937
CityNeptune City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
There are many directors in the middle range who've made mostly successful pictures, and then there are a few great directors who've had some successes and some failures. I suppose my life would be smoother if I wasn't almost totally enamored of the latter category.
There was a period when I just wanted to make what I wanted to make and I didn't care what lie I had to tell.
I don't want to direct a movie as good as Antonioni, or Kubrick, or Polanski, or whoever. I want it to be my own. I think I've got the seed of it and, what's more, that I can make movies that are different and informed by my taste.
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point.
I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others...
You have to do every movie one at a time. Trilogy is contrary to this ideology. My nightmare is to wake up and find myself the host of a TV series.
You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.
I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye. But I can't look into the eyes of everyone who wants to look into mine; I can't emotionally cope with that kind of volume. Sunglasses are part of my armor.
The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.
I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.
The less people know about me, the easier my job is.
I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.
I would never want to vilify somebody who considered abortion murder. I was an illegitimate child myself. I may not have existed today.
There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.