Jack Nicholson Quotes

I've been reckless, but I'm not a rebel without a cause.

I'm more attracted to the bad guys. Why? Because in real life, I don't know any good guys. I know okay guys. I know polite guys. I know people who can control themselves.

One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

I have never felt the constraints of social acceptability.

I may be a maverick, but it doesn't mean I like playing tricks.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal.

I'm not an academic type in term of personality. I had my share of madness as a teenager.

I'm kind of in between a goody-goody and a rebel. I'm not bad, but I'm not good either. I'm a little crazy.

I think everything I have done in my life, my reasons at the time were right no matter how things worked out.

Everyone always asks, 'Did you ever rebel? Did you dye your hair blue? Did you wear black nail polish?' I mean, of course, there have been episodes when you wear weird-colored lipstick... But generally, I think I was pretty much the way I am now.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in many respects.

It's always more fun to be an anti-hero. They're more interesting.

Has it ever happened to you that you actually like a rogue more than a so-called honest citizen? Have you ever wondered why? I believe that this can only be so because a rogue is more original and more his own. He is what he is.

I play antihero; I play hero... I'm not image-struck.

I am strangely attracted to the hooligan crowd. I find them actually less dangerous than some of the people I work with now in Hollywood.

I think anyone who's willing to be brutally honest with who they are and express themselves is always going to get the oddball label, the pyscho label, the twisted label. That's what happens.

I've kind of got a rebellious bone. I think I came out of the womb like that.

I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.