Just let the wardrobe do the acting.
In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.
I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
I'm not hard to get along with.
I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.
I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
I've spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
I'm definitely still wild at heart.
I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
There's a period just before you start a movie when you start thinking, I don't know what in the world I'm going to do. It's free-floating anxiety. In my case, though, this is over by lunch the first day of shooting.
Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.
It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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.
I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I'm going to do it, if I can do it... Then I walk on set and the director says, 'Roll', and all of a sudden, all of it disappears and it's all happening, and I relax, and I'm doing what I do, and I'm not even thinking about it.
In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.
I have a lot of vanity.
You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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.
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!
What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts.
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.
With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away.
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.
I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.
People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.
We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
Acting is everybody's favorite second job.
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
I only take Viagra when I'm with more than one woman.
Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
