"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."

"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."

"I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate."

"There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television."

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch."

"With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60. -Jack Nicholson"

"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."

"What's beautiful is all that counts, pal. That's all that counts."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny."

"I'm not hard to get along with."

"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'm Irish. I think about death all the time."

"I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film."

"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."

"Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago."

"Just let the wardrobe do the acting."

"Almost everybody's happy to be a fool for love."

"My mother never saw the irony of calling me a "son of a bitch"

"The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom."

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."