Jack Nicholson Play Quotations

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

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.

The first role I ever played I had the lead and it's pretty much stayed that way, though people take great relish in calling me a character actor, which I am. There are a lot of short parts I could play, but I only do them when they are central to the idea of the movie.

I assume most of the characters I play are exactly like me.

I feel very lucky because I don't think there's any part I can't play. There are parts that scare me more than others...

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.