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

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

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

“A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.”

“Then the weeks rolled by in a sinister psych ward haze filled with white-coated orderlies and rocking whack-job patients torn straight from some old Jack Nicholson film, all anti-psychotic meds and padded lonely cells...”

“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.”

“Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”