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"The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!"
Quote by -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."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it."
Quote by -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."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
"When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun."
Quote by -Jack Nicholson
IT CAN BE STARTLING TO SEE SOMEONE�S BREATH, LET ALONE THE BREATHING OF A CROWD. YOU USUALLY DON�T BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE EXTEND THAT FAR.
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
MORE THAN ONCE I'VE AWAKENED WITH TEARS RUNNING DOWN MY CHEEKS. I HAVE HAD TO THINK WHETHER I WAS CRYING OR WHETHER IT IS INVOLUNTARY, LIKE DROOLING.
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
IT'S NO FUN WATCHING PEOPLE WOUND THEMSELVES SO THAT THEY CAN HOLE UP, NURSE THEMSELVES BACK TO HEALTH, AND REPEAT THE CYCLE. THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE TO DO.
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
HOW CONCISE THAT YOU CAN CRY FROM AWFUL WOUNDS, DESERTION, HAPPINESS, MEMORIES, HUMILIATION, DISAPPOINTMENT OR GRANDEUR.
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
WITH BLEEDING INSIDE THE HEAD THERE IS A METALLIC TASTE AT THE BACK OF THE THROAT.
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
THE IMPULSE IS TO SQUEEZE AND FONDLE BABY WILD ANIMALS BUT THEN THEY'D BE BROKEN AND WHAT GOOD WOULD THEY BE?
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
IF THE HOUSE IS BITTER COLD, ALL THE FLUIDS THEREIN, IF NOT FROZEN, ARE STIFF AND SLOW.
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
IT CAN BE HELPFUL TO THINK OF THEM EATING YOUR FAVORITE FOODS AND OCCASIONALLY THROWING UP AND GETTING BITS STUCK IN THEIR NOSES.
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
WHEN YOU'RE TRYING SOMETHING NEW, YOU'RE TORN BETWEEN ANTICIPATING A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE AND THINKING YOU'RE A FOOL TO IGNORE WHAT YOU KNOW YOU LIKE.
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
HOW DO YOU FIND THE RIGHT POSITION TO LIE DOWN WITH PEOPLE OR EVEN ANIMALS? OFTEN ONE OF THE PARTNERS IS SMOTHERED OR CONTORTED. WHEN DONE PROPERLY, THOUGH, EVERYONE IS HAPPY.
Quote by -Jenny Holzer
All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.
Quote by -Ken Kesey