Jack Nicholson

They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, its gonna scare 'em.

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a- bitch.

You only lie to two people in your life: your girlfriend and the police.

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

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.

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

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.