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Jack Nicholson Quotes

If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: April 22, 1937

Topics

You Wrong Matter Follow Two Take

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

Myself Me Hands Play Always Piano

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

Music Vision World Matters Sound

The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There was just something about Martin Short in particular. I really related to him and hung on his every word and mannerism, so I started impersonating all of his characters as an 8th grader.

Live Night Short Saturday Crystal

If someone asked, 'Would you prefer to be thought of as St. Michael as opposed to the devil,' I might say St. Michael. But that choice is not really there, because you are in an environment in which you have natural predators and enemies.

Michael Ashcroft

Thought Someone Devil You Choice

Foreign languages was the only thing that interested me when I was at school, so playing in another language... it is quite demanding because if it is not your mother tongue, you are missing some connotations and some emotional depth of certain things.

Mother School Me Language You Depth

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

Mirror Moment Day People Me Blame

I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.

Robbie Coltrane

Beautiful Worry Sometimes Things

Skin is not only an envelope protecting the inner body, or a membrane that allows exchange between exterior and interior of the body. It also serves as a mingling point between the outer world and inner self, and between body and soul.

Soul World Self Body Skin Interior

The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Born First Single Line Out Text

I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes.

Great Day One Day Dying Whenever

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Mistakes Past Learn You Must Lean

Sex education has to do with what's in people's head.

Education People Sex Head

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