Quotes from Jack Nicholson

I've always had lots of friends who share my perspective - I guess you could say that I'm a guy who aggressively pursues his happiness.

Million bucks won't see you through a major health crisis.

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.

We learn how to kiss, or to drink, talk to our buddies-all the things that you can't really teach in social studies or history-we all learn them at the movies.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.

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

Kids are life's only guaranteed, bona fide upside surprise.

I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.

I resist all established beliefs. My religion basically is to be immediate, to live in the now.

You make me want to be a better man.

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

Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.

Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives. But remember, as my plastic surgeon always said: if you gotta go, go with a smile.

I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

I usually don't get too bogged down with my personal problems because that's a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.

There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

Life doesn't have to be about finding Osama bin Laden or becoming the president of the United States. Life is about the little things, which is one of the things you learn when you get older.

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.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

I'm definitely still wild at heart.