Jack Nicholson is a pro-life actor who has received more Academy Award nominations in male acting categories -- a total of 12 -- than anyone else. He has won 3 Oscars as an actor, a total attained by only five other performers.
| “ | Nicholson, a staunch pro-lifer said in an interview about abortion, “I’m positively against it. I don’t have the right to any other view.” Nicholson’s anti-abortion stance is a deeply personal one: his mother who had him when she was a teenager was pressured to have an abortion and didn’t. It was the moral character of his mother and grandmother that stopped the abortion from happening. When asked about the abortion in a previous Rolling Stone interview, he said his only emotion was one of gratitude. “[If June and Ethel had been] of less character, I never would have gotten to live. These women gave me the gift of life.”[1] | ” |
Nicholson turned down an offer to play the lead role in The Godfather even though he knew the movie would be a hit, because he felt the role should go to an Italian.[2]