Jack Nicholson

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

“You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.”

“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.”

“I'm a good friend.”

“My motto is: more good times.”

“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.”

“I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.”

“I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.”

“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.”

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

“In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.”

“I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.”

“I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.”

“I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.”

“The camera photographs what's there.”