"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."
December 24, 2007 8:44 PM   Subscribe

Jack Nicholson in Esquire, refusing to be pigeonholed, holds forth on 9/11, Richard Nixon, fatherhood, baby boomers, Brittney Spears, basketball, faith, George Bush, golf, eyeglasses, the women's movement and more. (Including acting!)
posted by dawson (38 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Double. Creepy! -- cortex



 
What would it be like to fuck Britney Spears? I can answer that question: monumental. Life altering!

Creepy.
posted by the_bone at 9:03 PM on December 24, 2007


This is not the time for civil rights.

Creepy.
posted by omarr at 9:05 PM on December 24, 2007


Men dominate because of physicality, and thus they have mercy where women do not.

Creepy.
posted by mediareport at 9:12 PM on December 24, 2007


I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

Creepy.
posted by fleetmouse at 9:13 PM on December 24, 2007


I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean?

Creepy.
posted by signalnine at 9:22 PM on December 24, 2007


I don't know if this is a true statistic, but I heard somewhere that there are three times as many single women over forty as single men. That's what we got from the women's movement. The chickens have come home to roost.

Retarded.
posted by maxwelton at 9:24 PM on December 24, 2007


This looks like a fun game. I'll try:

That is correct: I didn't know that my sister was really my mother until I was thirty-seven years old.

Creepy, and tragic.

[FAIL]
posted by Minus215Cee at 9:24 PM on December 24, 2007


What do I do well as a father? I'm there all the time....you gotta be there even if you don't wanna be.

Creepy.
posted by 517 at 9:48 PM on December 24, 2007


Once you've seen the video of jack nicholson drunk out of his mind and running head first into a fire, that's pretty much how you see him all the time.
posted by puke & cry at 9:51 PM on December 24, 2007


Where's that video?
posted by 517 at 9:52 PM on December 24, 2007


I'm looking for it but I can't seem to find it yet.
posted by puke & cry at 9:58 PM on December 24, 2007


He mentions Kukla, Fran, and Ollie. Creepy. Especially Kukla:
Note: Ollie -- the alligator
Fran -- The woman who doesn't have a hand up her butt (I think)
Kukla-- ???? (balding, though)
posted by hexatron at 10:10 PM on December 24, 2007


if I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights.

Creepy. Crawly.
posted by cytherea at 10:14 PM on December 24, 2007


Merry Christmas Metafilter. That's right, I said it. Look at the timestamp.
posted by autodidact at 10:14 PM on December 24, 2007


Ooops. Didn't see that.
posted by cytherea at 10:15 PM on December 24, 2007


Anybody who is just now noticing that Jack Nicholson is deeply Creepy has not been paying attention for the last 40 years. When he axed the door in "The Shining" and went "He-e-e-ere's Johnny!"... he was just being himself.
posted by wendell at 10:17 PM on December 24, 2007


That's why he's all wooden and stuff for the first hour.
posted by shakespeherian at 10:21 PM on December 24, 2007


What do I do well as a father? I'm there all the time....you gotta be there even if you don't wanna be.

Creepy.


Really? That sounds like an excellent descriptor of parenthood to me.
posted by dirtynumbangelboy at 10:34 PM on December 24, 2007


You have to imagine him saying it in his Shining voice.
posted by cytherea at 10:41 PM on December 24, 2007


Yep, he sounds about as arrogant and self-absorbed as I imagine him to be!
posted by zardoz at 11:10 PM on December 24, 2007


I'm the age where we didn't have television as kids.

Creepy.
posted by mazola at 11:27 PM on December 24, 2007


Creepy.
posted by miss lynnster at 11:31 PM on December 24, 2007 [1 favorite]


JR: I'm in a business where it's not about race...
JR:Comedy is an angry white man's game.

Creepy.
posted by dawson at 11:39 PM on December 24, 2007


It's hard to tell if this is real or not.
posted by davidmsc at 11:44 PM on December 24, 2007


if I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled.

Pretty funny coming from a rich old white guy.
posted by Tenuki at 11:53 PM on December 24, 2007 [1 favorite]


Believe it or not, I supported Richard Nixon on the issue of presidential privilege. How could anyone conceive of being the president of the United States and think that every single thing that you say or do can become a part of the public record?

Creepy. But unsurprising.
posted by blucevalo at 12:03 AM on December 25, 2007


did you post this because you got a time machine for christmas and went back to 2003 when this was first published?
posted by Hat Maui at 12:06 AM on December 25, 2007


did you post this because you got a time machine for christmas and went back to 2003 when this was first published?

I was wondering why the title was "Jack Nicholson, 66". Since, like, he's 70.
posted by delmoi at 12:16 AM on December 25, 2007


Liberalism is the right to question without being called a heretic. That's what America did for the world.

Creepy.
posted by Wolof at 12:46 AM on December 25, 2007


did you post this because you got a time machine for christmas and went back to 2003 when this was first published?

erm. actually i posted this back in '03 and it just showed...
I guess I FAIL. The date of publication registered in my reptilian brain just seconds after I hit 'submit'.

I did facepalm.

but there is treasure there, like Al Pacino , Willie Nelson and Faye "Fear is a pair of handcuffs on your soul" Dunaway

That Jack though, that is some unorthodox shit. Creepy, one might even say.
posted by dawson at 12:53 AM on December 25, 2007


Bored now.
posted by The Light Fantastic at 2:12 AM on December 25, 2007


MetaFilter: Old AND creepy.
posted by rhizome23 at 2:14 AM on December 25, 2007


I would never agree to be interviewed like that: where they remove the questions and only leave your answers. It gives the impression that you're nuts and that you just walk around pontificating.

Or maybe Jack Nicholson DOES just walk around pontificating.
posted by grumblebee at 2:19 AM on December 25, 2007 [1 favorite]


He sounds like Robert Evans, or some other aged, self-mythologizing Hollywood dumbfuck.

Merry Christmas, you pretentious old message board!
posted by evil holiday magic at 2:27 AM on December 25, 2007


A single link post from a 2003 interview in Esquire. And he has a movie opening today.

Creepy.
posted by hal9k at 4:53 AM on December 25, 2007 [1 favorite]


I can't handle the truth! :(
posted by thewalrusispaul at 5:52 AM on December 25, 2007


Doubly.
posted by Horace Rumpole at 6:50 AM on December 25, 2007


Perhaps he was auditioning for the lead role in MetaFilter: The Trolling.
posted by JanetLand at 6:50 AM on December 25, 2007


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