With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.-Jack Nicholson

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

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

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.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.

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

Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

Here I am,' I thought, 'back from the jungle, back from the ruins. Here, where wealth is no longer gorgeous and power has no dignity.

I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

Computation involves going from a question to an answer. Mathematics involves going from an answer to a question.

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .

I think that by ignoring the show you're ignoring the audience who put you there.

My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

O thrush, your song is passing sweet, But never a song that you have sung Is half so sweet as thrushes sang When my dear love and I were young.