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I wasn't a babe in the woods. ...

I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.

Jack Nicholson 307 quotes

I have never felt brutalized a...

I have never felt brutalized as an actor. Many actors do, some times, but I've never had that experience. If I'm not happy with the balance, I just won't work with that person again.

Jack Nicholson 307 quotes

The stage has a certain discip...

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

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I don't want people to know wh...

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

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I have mainly been interested ...

I have mainly been interested in acting. I think it's a great job, a fine way to live your life.

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I was invited to join the MGM ...

I was invited to join the MGM cartoon department. But if I'd started work in animation I'd have had to take a cut in salary, so I didn't.

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I've always understood money; ...

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

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I began to think that the fine...

I began to think that the finest modern writer was the screen actor. This was in the spirit of the Fifties where a very antiliterary literature was emerging - Kenneth Patchen and others. I kind of believed what Nietzsche said, that nothing not written in your blood is worth reading; it's just more pollution of the airwaves.

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If you're going to write, writ...

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

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Through all permutations and y...

Through all permutations and youthful poetry, I came to believe that the film actor was the great 'literateur' of his time.

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It always bothered me when peo...

It always bothered me when people came off stage and were told how great they were. They weren't, really, in my opinion. It was then I started thinking that, contrary to conventional wisdom, film was the artful medium for the actor, not the stage.

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I thought of myself as part of...

I thought of myself as part of the general filmmaking effort. And as my scope broadened, I began to think about directing. I wanted to be the guy who got to say whether the dress is red or blue.

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There is one thing I know abou...

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

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Once you've started a film you...

Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.

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I just know that sameness, rep...

I just know that sameness, repetition, and conceptualizing are the acting craft's adversaries, and it seems more intelligent to start off within a framework where those things are, to some degree, taken out of your hands.

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As an actor, I want to give in...

As an actor, I want to give in to the collaboration with the director because I don't want my work to be all the same. The more this can be done with comfort, the more variety my work has had.

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I never thought in terms of ty...

I never thought in terms of typing myself, because I wasn't that successful. After an actor has done a few pieces of work, his naГЇvetГ© is the part of the craft he has to nurture most.

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I did not want to be coming of...

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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In the real world there's an a...

In the real world there's an after-effect of disappointment if you lose an argument. But if, to begin with, you're set up not to have this particular autonomy, then you're not disappointed.

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As a means of supporting exper...

As a means of supporting experiential element in film, once I begin to work on a particular movie I consider myself to be the tool of the director.

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