Top 50 Jack Black Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You’re not hardcore, unless you live hardcore.”

— Jack Black

2. “I’m fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.”

— Jack Black

3. “I’d rather be the king of kids, than the prince of fools.”

— Jack Black

4. “Habit is the strongest thing in life.”

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5. “The greatest gift in life is the ability to think great thoughts and have the strength to take action so that those thoughts become reality in this wonderful and abundant world.”

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6. “I serve society by rocking!”

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7. “You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow.”

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8. “A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.”

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9. “Buddha is pretty funny. Buddha is the coolest, though. If I had to go with one, I’d probably party with the Buddha.”

— Jack Black

10. “I don’t have any real spirituality in my life – I’m kind of an atheist – but when music can take me to the highest heights, it’s almost like a spiritual feeling. It fills that void for me.”

— Jack Black

11. “Justice is a word that resides in the dictionary. It occasionally makes its escape, but is promptly caught and put back where it belongs.”

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12. “I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the ‘Pink Panther’ theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock.”

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13. “I’ve had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you’ve really Joeled it up – there’s some good periods of Joel; it’s not all hot cheese. But I can’t judge anyone else for their cheese. I’ve deep-sea dived in the Gouda.”

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14. “I’m an aspiring writer. I hate that phrase. You’re either a writer or you’re not.”

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15. “I recommend that everyone in their youth be as out of shape as possible so that when you turn 40, people can go, “Wow, you look much better now.””

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16. “Funny songs, that’s my ticket. I can’t remember when it started or why it started, it’s just something that I NEEDED.”

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17. “Every movie presents its challenges.”

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18. “I don’t think of myself as a great improver. A lot of times there’s long periods of silence when everyone in the recording studio is looking at their watch and waiting for me to say something. And I’m searching desperately in my brain for anything before something dribbles out.”

— Jack Black

19. “I’m always looking for talented people that I want to collaborate with.”

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20. “You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast.”

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21. “I love comedy and drama equally and music too. I just sort of follow my nose to whatever seems really exciting at the time. Eventually, I might want to do a rock opera.”

— Jack Black

22. “There’s something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can’t live with each other makes you feel there’s something wrong with you.”

— Jack Black

23. “We’re in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let’s face it, that’s it.”

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24. “I really wanted people to pay attention to me and like me. And the class clown thing, you know? There’s a weird desperation to the class clown when you really investigate it. Why are they trying to be the clown so much? They’re filling some kind of hole.”

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25. “If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.”

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26. “I’m a Jew. Thirty-three is when Christ died. So though I’m a Jew, in the back of my mind I still think that I gotta get it done before I’m thirty-four because well, I don’t know why. He got it done before He was thirty-four.”

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27. “Me personally, I don’t have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they’re all pretty funny.”

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28. “Tenacious D loves Auntie Em’s. Her delicious nutrients are always energizing and indie-fresh. Where does she find those unbelievable recipes? Somewhere over the rainbow?”

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29. “I like being married. I’m at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don’t go out for wild nights.”

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30. “With the acting, it’s somebody else’s brainchild, and I’m just sort of helping flesh it out. There’s a special satisfaction to being the brains behind the operation.”

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31. “I don’t really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it’s boring it’s boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it’s for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.”

— Jack Black

32. “People scream at me, “Hey, let’s party.” I give off an I’m-crazy-and-I-want-to-arty-and-wrestle-you vibe.”

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33. “Part of the acting gig is when you’re let loose some improvs and put stuff into your own words every once in a while. That doesn’t get you a writing credit or more money. It just makes it more fun.”

— Jack Black

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34. “Beneath the clothes, we find a man. And beneath the man... we find... his nucleus.”

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35. “Every time I stole a dollar I knew I was breaking a law and working a hardship on the loser. Yet for years I kept on doing it. I wonder how many of us quit wronging others for the best reason of all – because it is wrong, and we know it.”

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36. “I’d just like to be in films that I would like to see. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don’t know what I’m going to come at you with.”

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37. “The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It’s for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.”

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38. “I’m used to being crazy and “rock-n-rolly”, which is a little different than this world. For me, it was a chance to stretch a little bit.”

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39. “I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me.”

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40. “Even at that age I had stumbled upon one truth, and that is, the best way to get misinformed is to ask a lot of questions.”

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41. “The books so fired me with the desire for travel, adventure, romance, that I was miserable most of the time.”

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42. “I say they had character because, while they did wrong things, they always tried to do them in the right way and at the right time.”

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43. “Weddings mainly are for drinkers.”

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44. “I’m going to write about them as I took them – with a smile.”

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45. “Let’s face it, the great comedians now that are handicapped in the looks department are tremendous writers.”

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46. “When I was in High School I fell for pretty much any girl I ever met. But I was so desperate that I couldn’t get any of them because they sensed my desperation! After many, many years, I learned to relax and just be myself.”

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47. “Seems like every other day there’s somebody on the news, somebody gets killed or does something crazy and all the neighbors and everybody says, “I can’t believe he did that, I can’t believe she did that.””

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48. “The whipping post is a strange place to gather fresh confidence and courage, yet that’s what it gave me, and in that dark cell I left behind many fears and misgivings.”

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49. “Looking back at it, it seems to me that I was blown here and there like a dead leaf whipped about by the autumn winds till at last it finds lodgment in some cozy fence corner. When I left school at fourteen I was as unsophisticated as a boy could be; I knew no more of the world and its strange ways than the gentle, saintly woman who taught me my prayers in the convent. Before me twentieth birthday I was on the docket of criminal court, on trial for burglary.”

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50. “My experience with short rations in many places has convinced me that we would all be healthier and better nourished if we ate half as much food and chewed it twice as long.”

— Jack Black