You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

- Jack Nicholson

Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.

- Jack Nicholson

The minute that you're not learning I believe you're dead.

- Jack Nicholson

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…

- Jack Nicholson

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

- Jack Nicholson

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.

- Jack Nicholson

It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.

- Jack Nicholson

Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.

- Jack Nicholson

I don’t want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

- Jack Nicholson