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
Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.
Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do
I'm not hard to get along with.
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.
There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.
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.
The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.
I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this; it just doesn't feel right at my age.
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.
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.