Jack Nicholson spent three months in the 1960s walking around his Mulholland Drive house (where he still lives) in the nude. No matter who called by, Jack was nude. Take it or leave it. This is why we love Jack Nicholson. And we love him for Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Last Detail, Chinatown and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. We love him for The Shining. We love him for leaving his back door open so his neighbour Marlon Brando could pop in and raid his fridge when he had padlocked his own. We love him for beating up a car with a golf club. We love him for not giving a fuck, a hero in an age of none. We care not a jot if he gets fat and drunk and lecherous. He's Jack.
On movie stars
“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.”
On ageing
“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.”
On beer
“Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.”
On being alone
“Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.”
On why he is an actor
“Frankly, I got into the movies because I like the movies a lot.”
On plastic surgery
“I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.”
On sex
“I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.”
On confidence
“I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.”
On dying
“I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.”
On the truth
“There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.”
On younger women
“Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.”
On porno
"If I needed a porn picture or something like that, my staff normally does that kind of shopping for me."
On AIDS “Now we have the Death Fuck.”
On being single "I'm unattached for quite a while so I have varied company. In terms of age, you could say that over the last year, I've probably covered the territory from twenty-one to sixty-one."
On why he says ‘cunt’ and ‘pussy’ so often
"I love those words!"
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