"My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them."

-- David Bailey

#Nicholson Quotes

“A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security.”
“You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.”
“Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back?”
“The world is a kind of spiritual kindergarten where millions of bewildered infants are trying to spell "God" with the wrong blocks.”

Source : Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edith Brower (1968). “Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters to Edith Brower”, Belknap Press
“Character - Some day, you will be wrestling with the great temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.”
“All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different.”
“We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us had ever been inordinately fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't 'love' animals.”
“I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.”

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