Age is the first limitation on roles that Ive ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago. – Jack Nicholson
Its a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so Ive never had any trouble identifying with the character that Im playing. – Jack Nicholson
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. – Jack Nicholson
I cant hit on women in public any more. I didnt decide this it just doesnt feel right at my age. – Jack Nicholson
Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it. But when we pick ourselves up we find our bones are, after all, not broken; while level enough and not unpleasing is the new terrace which lies unexplored before us. – Logan Pearsall Smith, “Age and Death,” Afterthoughts, 1931