Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don’t know why.
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.
I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don’t.
You’re anachronistic when you know that your feelings aren’t going to have any effect on anything.
I’m in the movie business; it’s meant to be very cutthroat. But you won’t find anybody that ever says I cheated them or manipulated them.
I’ve spent more time playing golf than anything else the last 18 years. Just wanted to be an 80s-shooter. Got there, too.
I usually don’t get too bogged down with my personal problems because that’s a one-way street if you get yourself into a negative frame of mind and only see the dark side of life.
A lot of people in the middle of their lives have a secret yearning for more romance.
I used to be very quick, I would be able to leave the room and be back before you noticed. When you can’t do that anymore you need to change the style of how you do things. But I’m very interested in life and you don’t want to lose that.
I’ve never lost a friend over work. I come from a small-town environment and I remember my childhood impressions that, if you were a conniver or a fink or whatever, everybody knew about it and you were a louse for the rest of your life. So I never lost those values in some way.
Sometimes a bit of distance can be very healthy. You can go away by yourself on a trip and come back very glad to be with your partner because you’ve cleared your head out of all the negativity.
I want a big 25-foot pink statue that holds my grave. Or I also might like the way the Indians did it. They hang you up on the top of a tree and the birds eat you. No, really I would probably choose cremating.
No issue is more compelling than the air we breathe, be it hot or cold, be it hawk or human.
With my sunglasses on, I’m Jack Nicholson. Without them, I’m fat and 60.
The minute that you’re not learning I believe you’re dead.
I’ve never been able to say I’ve been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I’ve been influenced in some way by all of them.
If you think you’re attractive, you’re always attractive.
I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth.
I’m certainly not as tough as people think. I’m not a fighter and so forth. I’d just as soon go home.
Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship’s firm laws obey.