The Best of Jack Nicholson

Robert Eroica Dupea
"Where do you get the ass to tell anybody anything about class, or who the hell's got it, or what she typifies? You shouldn't even be in the same room with her, you pompous celibate... You're totally full of shit! You're all full of shit."

Jack Torrance
"Wendy? Darling? Light, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in!"

R.P. McMurphy
"But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that."

J.J. Gittes
"Have you ever heard the expression "Let sleeping dogs lie"? Sometimes you're better off not knowing."

Frank Costello
"One of us had to die. With me, it tends to be the other guy."

Buddusky
"If this guy gets pussy out of this, I'm gonna eat my fucking flat hat, man."

Warren Schmidt
"Relatively soon, I will die. Maybe in 20 years, maybe tomorrow, it doesn't matter. Once I am dead and everyone who knew me dies too, it will be as though I never existed. What difference has my life made to anyone. None that I can think of. None at all."

The Joker
"Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?"

Melvin Udall
"People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch."

George Hanson
"They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em."

Garrett Breedlove
"If you wanted to get me on my back, all you had to do was ask me."

Col. Nathan R. Jessep
"YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!"

Jonathan
"You want a job? I got a job for you. Fix up this pigsty! You get a pretty Goddammed good salary for testing out this bed all day! You want an extra fifty dollars a week, try vacuuming! You want an extra hundred, make this Goddammed bed! Try opening some Goddammed windows! That's why you can't stand up in here, the Goddammed place smells like a coffin!"

Harry Sanborn
"I have never lied to you, I have always told you some version of the truth."

Daryl Van Horne
"I see men running around trying to put their dicks into everything, trying to make something happen... but it's WOMEN who are the source... the only power. Nature, birth, rebirth. Cliche? Cliche... sure... but true."