#be

I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#artists #because #been #i #influenced

If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#chance #dinner #go #going #good

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. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#any #be real #could #crazy #form

In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It's sure been tough on my nails. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#industry #ladder #nails #only #rung

Once you've been really bad in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#been #certain #develop #fearlessness #kind

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. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

#before #case #day #first #going

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

— Jack Nicholson

#going #haven #here #i #life

A well-off plastic surgeon can suffer just as much as an Irish lad who has been abused or whatever. ↗

— William Nicholson

#irish #just #lad #much #plastic

There is this notion that the lives of the comfortable-off middle class don't merit being treated seriously and with compassion. ↗

— William Nicholson

#class #compassion #lives #merit #middle

The game is meant to be fun. ↗