My mother never saw the irony of calling me a "son of a bitch
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
I'm not hard to get along with.
I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.
In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
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.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. -Jack Nicholson
There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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.
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
Here comes Johnny!
I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
I'm definitely still wild at heart.
If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.
I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
I just like art. I get pure pleasure from it. I have a lot of wonderful paintings, and every time I look at them I see something different.
My motto is: more good times.
There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
