Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Jack Nance

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Jack Nance.
Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Jack Nance

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).

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
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.
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
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.
To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.
And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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!
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