Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Nance

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Last updated on November 19, 2024.

Marvin John Nance, known professionally as Jack Nance, was an American actor. A longtime collaborator of filmmaker David Lynch, Nance portrayed the lead in Lynch's directorial film debut Eraserhead (1977). He continued to work with Lynch throughout his career, including as a series regular on the ABC mystery drama Twin Peaks (1990–1991).

American - Actor | December 21, 1943 - December 30, 1996

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Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Jack Nance

All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

Jack Nance

But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.

Jack Nance

To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.

Jack Nance

And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.

Jack Nance

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

Jack Nance

We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.

Jack Nance

My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from The Wizard of Oz. But I can tell you, my dog is always with me. WOOF!

Jack Nance

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Nance

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