Jack Nicholson Retires Due To Memory Loss: 5 Best Movie Moments To Remember Him With

Jack Nicholson is retiring from acting due to memory loss....so let's remember five of his best moments together.

Nicholson can't remember his lines, so he is bowing out of acting at the age of 76.

A Hollyoood insider said that Nicholson is retiring "without fanfare" and is "happy to tacitly join the retirees club like Sean Connery."

About Nicolson's quitting acting, the insider said, "There is a simple reason behind his decision - it is memory loss."

"Quite frankly, at 76, Jack has memory issues and can no longer remember the lines being asked of him."

Jack Nicholson has had a long, illustrious acting career spanning over 50 years, and is the most nominated leading man in Oscar history.

Here are five of his best moments.

5) As Good as it Gets (1997)

"You make me want to be a better man."

Sweetest, saddest line ever.

Jack Nicholson's Mervin Udall, who has severe OCD, falls in love with Helen Hunt's single-mother....and gives her the best compliment of her life.

Nicholson won his second Best Actor Oscar for the role in James L Brooks' rom-com.

4) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1976)

"What do you think you are, crazy or something? Well, you're not! You're not!"

This film won Jack his first Oscar. Milos Forman's gritty drama took place in a mental institution, but Nicholson reminds his fellow patients that the outside world is pretty crazy, too. The film, based on Ken Kesey's novel, brought a groundbreaking awareness of once-taboo mental health issues to Hollywood.

3) Chinatown (1974)

"I goddamn near lost my nose - and I like it. I like breathing through it. And I still think you're hiding something."

Nicholson was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar and won a Golden Globe for this role in Roman Polanski's noir. He plays private investigator Jake Gittes who goes up against corruption, coverups...and Faye Dunaway, femme fatale.

2) The Shining (1980)

"Heeeere's Johnny!"

So, so, freaking terrifying.

Also, amazingly enough, an ad-lib.

In Stanley Kubrick's classic horror based on a Steven King novel, Nicholson's Jack Torrace busts through a door and into movie history.

1) A Few Good Men (1992)

"You can't handle the truth!"

This line was voted the most memorable movie quote ever. Nicholson's character Colonel Jessup snarls the line at Tom Cruise, finally cracking after dogged questioning in Rob Reiner's courtroom drama. The resulting rant/ confession is in the annals of film history forever.