Jack Nicholson

“The camera photographs what's there.”

“The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.”

“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.”

“Acting is everybody's favorite second job.”

“I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.”

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

“You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.”

“One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.”

“I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.”

“Just let the wardrobe do the acting.”

“When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.”

“A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.”

“Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.”

“Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor.”

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

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

“I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.”

“There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.”

“I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.”

“I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being.”