I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
Jack NicholsonRead
I was particularly proud of my performance as the Joker. I considered it a piece of pop art.
Interpretation
Jack Nicholson views his portrayal of the Joker as a significant artistic achievement.
In this quote, Jack Nicholson expresses his pride in his role as the Joker, emphasizing that he sees it as not just a performance, but an important piece of pop art. This suggests that he values the creative and cultural impact of his work, highlighting the intersection of film and art in popular culture.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a discussion about the role of actors in creating art.
I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability.
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.
Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
My whole career strategy has been to build a base so that I could take the roles I want to play. I'd hate to think that a shorter part might not be available because I was worried about my billing.
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.
Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.
A studio, like a poem, is an intimacy and a freedom you can look out from, into each part of your life and a little beyond.
From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
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