I've always understood money; it's not a big mystical thing to me.

I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.

Having kids is the most innately positive thing that anyone can do.

I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do

When it's over for a woman, it's over. You're not getting an appeal.

Children give your life a resonance that it can't have without them.

The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier some place else.

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

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.

It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.

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

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

The only way to break a bad habit was to replace it with a better habit.

I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.

I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.

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

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

I guess this proves there are as many nuts in the Academy as anywhere else.

I envy people of faith. I'm incapable of believing in anything supernatural.

You can't say, "I'm gonna make a hit movie." You're as dead as you could be.

If you want your freedom, you have to be willing to work hard to exercise it.

I certainly knew my father. He just didn't happen to be my biological father.

How would I like to be seen? Very endearing, charming, intelligent, handsome.

I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

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

[on the birth of his son after having had two daughters] I finally got it right.

Always try in interviews to avoid the cliches about the problems of public life.

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

I mean, it's real hard to be free when you are bought and sold in the marketplace.

Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.

The most difficult thing about being well known? Getting out of a hotel room at 4am.

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film.

A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.

I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate.

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

I suppose I can do more for a script as an actor than as a writer - in the film sense.

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

There's no point dwelling on what might or could have been. You just have to go forward.

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

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

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

If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.

Everyone pretty much acknowledges that he's the man, and I still feel that underrates him.

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

I did not want to be coming off the stage at the mercy of what somebody else told me I did.

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