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1. As Garrett Breedlove in the movie "Terms of Endearment", Jack took an intriguing drive on the beach during a date with Shirley MacLaine's character, Aurora Greenway. Garrett is sitting on the T-bar of his convertible Corvette and driving with his foot. After a sharp turn ejects Garrett violently into the water, Aurora comes to see if he's OK, and his first words are, "If you wanted to get me ________, all you had to do is ask."
2. Playing the Joker in the 1989 movie "Batman", Jack ruminates on the thought that a man dressed up as a bat is getting all of his publicity. So he determines, "This town needs ________!"
3. As Col. Nathan Jessup in "A Few Good Men", Jack had a series of memorable lines, despite only being on screen for about fifteen minutes. His role culminates in a bitter courtroom exchange with Lt. Daniel Kaffee, played by Tom Cruise, where he utters the memorable line, "You can't handle the truth!" This was the beginning of the turnaround of the exchange. But some questions from Kaffee backfire when Jessup makes the questions sound superficial, by saying to the court, "Please tell me their lawyer hasn't pinned their hopes to _______."
4. From the 1980 suspense thriller, "The Shining", Jack sends out the phrase, "Heee-ere's Johnny!" after he has shattered a bathroom door with an axe in order to attack his wife. The phrase is not originally his, it belongs to Ed McMahon and "The Tonight Show". But...Jack Nicholson, in character as Jack Torrance, does a little storybook quote just before commencing with the axe chopping. What storybook did he quote from?
5. As writer Melvin Udall in "As Good As It Gets", Jack Nicholson had several memorable lines. His character was obsessive-compulsive, misanthropic and self-loathing, so on his way out of his psychologist's office, someone compliments him on his writing, and asks him how he writes women so well. His reply: "I think of a man. And I take away ________."
6. Jack Nicholson played Jake Gittes twice in movies, more famously in "Chinatown". Directed by Roman Polanski, Jake, a private detective, gets entangled in a case that gets considerably more complicated than he had originally suspected. His partner Lawrence Walsh, played by Joe Mantell, was the recipient of this gem of wisdom: "Walsh, let me explain something to you. This business requires a certain amount of _______."
7. Randall McMurphy, a role Jack Nicholson played in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", was a common criminal brought to a mental institution to test his mental health. Thinking he really didn't have any mental issues but enjoying the coziness of the ward compared to prison, he went along with the plan. During one of his exploits, he bribes a guard to allow a prostitute into the mental ward, and explains to the patients what is about to happen. He sums it up to one patient by saying to him, "That's right, Mr. Martini, there is _______."
8. Nobody knew ordering toast could be so complicated. Jack Nicholson played Bobby Dupea, a former concert pianist in "Five Easy Pieces". On his way to visiting his family in Washington, he tries to get an omelet and toast, but no substitutions are allowed by the waitress. He is resorted to ordering a chicken salad sandwich with no butter, lettuce, mayo, OR CHICKEN. The rude waitress incredulously asks, "You want me to hold the chicken?" To which Bobby replies, "I want you to hold it _______"
9. In Jack Nicholson's first role that earned him an Oscar nomination, he played George Hanson in "Easy Rider". George Hanson was a lawyer companion that Wyatt and Billy (played by Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper) befriend along the way to New Orleans. In a conversation with Billy he talks about the freedom that they represent to the rest of America. George says America is scared of a free individual. Billy states it doesn't make them "runnin' scared", to which George ends the conversation by saying, "No, it makes 'em _______."
10. In 2007, Jack Nicholson starred in "The Bucket List" as billionaire hospital magnate and terminally ill patient Edward Cole, as he develops a friendship with Morgan Freeman's character Carter Chambers. After three months of friendship and going across the world to complete a list both had made to things they wanted to do before they died, Carter was the first to succumb to his ailment. Edward Cole delivered the eulogy at his funeral and said, "I hope that it doesn't sound selfish of me but... the last months of his life were _______."
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