The part earned Nicholson his fourth Oscar nomination, but again he did not win the award. Based on Ken Kesey's famous novel of the same name, the film follows R. McMurphy played by Nicholson , a convict who is placed in a mental institution where the nurses and doctors attempt to quash his rebellious spirit. In , Nicholson delivered an eerie if perhaps over-the-top performance as a deranged hotel caretaker in the acclaimed film adaptation of Stephen King's novel The Shining.
Throughout the s, Nicholson largely moved away from the subtle, understated roles that had earned him such acclaim in favor of more outlandish comic performances. He nevertheless delivered several brilliant performances during the decade: as Eugene O'Neill in the film Reds , as well as in Terms of Endearment for which he won another Oscar, and as the Joker in Batman Nicholson returned to top form in the s with stirring performances in such films as A Few Good Men and As Good As It Gets , for which he won a third Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of a misanthropic writer.
Jack Nicholson is unquestionably one of the greatest actors of his generation. In addition to his sheer volume of iconic roles, Nicholson stands out for the incredible range of characters he has convincingly portrayed. Nicholson's wide variety of characters have also made him one of his generation's most mysterious actors, as audiences have attempted unavailingly to figure out which of the many divergent personalities they've seen him adopt comes closest to the true Nicholson.
As an actor you can't help inserting yourself, especially if you love acting. In , reports surfaced that Nicholson was retiring from acting at the age of A source told Radar Onlne that the legendary actor "has memory issues and can no longer remember the lines being asked of him.
His last film was the romantic comedy How Do You Know. Nicholson married an actress named Sandra Knight in , and they had a daughter, Jennifer, before divorcing in He later had a year relationship with actress Anjelica Huston that ended when Nicholson had an affair with a beautiful model named Rebecca Broussard.
Nicholson and Broussard never married but have since had two children together. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us! Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. I needed to take a risk. But I didn't have as sharp a view as I do now.
The second time I expected to lose, and deservedly lose, to George C. But even getting a nomination blows my mind. I'd love to win but now that I've had several good performances that people at large have liked, it becomes harder to excite them. And familiarity breeds contempt. So I mean it when I say that if you can't appreciate Brando, I wouldn't know how to talk to you. If there's anything obvious in life, this is it. Other actors don't go around discussing who is the best actor in the world, because it's obvious - Marlon Brando is.
I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor. I'm very contra my constituency in terms of abortion because I'm positively against it. I don't have the right to any other view. My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience. As an actor, I have no desire for anybody to understand my past work.
This is the worst period ever for trying to do interesting work. With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and seventy. I would be so happy if I didn't smoke, for a lot of reasons. I can't believe that I can't break the habit. I don't want to be lying around, dying in Cedar's Sinai Hospital and thinking that I was as stupid enough, a man who is as petrified of dying as I am, to have done it to myself.
I'm a real fraidy-cat about mortality. The thing I like about The Joker is that his sense of humor is completely tasteless. We were moving to a freer society before AIDS.
But you could not proselytize this view. The facts were almost useless. You couldn't give a woman the facts and have her respond, 'Oh, all right.
I think it is very unattractive for me to be seen fawning over little, tiny girls. I didn't feel that for a long time but now I do. If I could slip them out the back entrance wrapped in a blanket, that's a different story.
February Explaining his controversial remarks on the death of Heath Ledger : What I actually said was, 'I warned them. I took one of these pills and had just gone to sleep when I had a phone call to go to an emergency at a friend's house.
I jumped up, went outside and some time later woke up on the driveway. It sounds amusing but I live in the mountains and it could've been worse. I didn't know Heath Ledger, but I know those pills. Star quality is if you're on stage and a cat walks on and they still watch you. It's not so nice when you are 71 and looking for some action. I feel uncomfortable doing it in the limelight - so from now on I'll do it when it's right. Happily, when it comes to girls hitting on me, I'm not undernourished.
But if it's a good movie, I'll catch up with it somewhere. I don't think they ever really captured Tim Burton's spirit [since he stopped being involved]. They kind of drove the franchise into the ground. Tim Burton 's a genius. He had the right take on it. That's why I did the movie. I did the movie based on a single conversation with him. We both come from the cartoon world originally.
We had similar ideas. Tim said the Joker should have a humorous dark side to him. Burton is one of the great movie makers. I think the world of him. He's the most unassuming man. And he doesn't feel pressure. That's what I love about him. Once he's in there, he's smiling making the movie.
That's it! I come from the Lynchs of Sligo Ireland. You know, I went there, but I looked in the phone book and there are nine million Lynchs in Sligo. There's no one before or since like Marlon Brando. The gift was enormous and flawless, like [ Pablo Picasso ].
Brando was a genius who was the beginning and end of his own revolution. You didn't rush him. He had a tremendous gift just in his stillness. I was in high school when I saw The Wild One He changed my life forever There was no way to follow in his footsteps.
He was just too large and just too far out of sight. He truly shook the world, and his influence will be there long into the future. I was talking to Sean Penn on the phone today. I told him it was interesting that they managed to leave me off this long list of Method actors they'd published in some article. I told him, "I'm still fooling them! Because there's probably no one who understands Method acting better academically than I do, or actually uses it more in his work.
But it's funny -- nobody really sees that. It's perception versus reality, I suppose. For a long time, I was afraid to be alone. I had to learn how to be alone. And there are still times when I think, Uh-oh! I gotta talk to somebody here or I'm gonna go crazy!
But I like to be alone. Now I do. I really do. There's a big luxury in solitude. After September 11, I held my tongue.
All of the public positions had been taken -- for, against, good, evil. I had nothing more to add. So I thought, Bring in the clowns, you know what I mean? That's why I've done a coupla years' worth of comedies.
That's what I'm really into. I like making beautiful things. Maybe that sounds ridiculous but when I choose a film to do, it's because it interests me in that way rather than any other. I look at every character I play on the screen as being completely separate.
You can say most of them are outsiders, but it's hard today to think of any character in a film who isn't an outsider. All I ask is that they relate to the truth in some way.
That's why I wear them. A long time ago, the Middle American in me may have thought it was a bit affected maybe. But the light is very strong in southern California. And once you've experienced negative territory in public life, you begin to accept the notion of shields. I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
But I can't look into the eyes of everyone who wants to look into mine; I can't emotionally cope with that kind of volume. Sunglasses are part of my armor. I love discourse. I'm dying to have my mind changed. I'm probably the only liberal who read Treason, by Ann Coulter.
I want to know, you understand? I like listening to everybody. This to me is the elixir of life. I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids.
So when I saw my nieces and nephews watching Howdy Doody , Kukla, Fran and Ollie , and so forth, I thought the world had gone mad. I always hesitate to say things like this in interviews because they tend to come back to haunt you, but if I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans. I'd prefer if people had no impressions of me.
As a kid, I had to tell my own family, "Please, just don't talk about me! I just didn't want them to tell anyone anything about me. God knew, they had a great opinion and they loved me and meant well, but it was like, Please, you don't have this right.
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