There’s “you can’t handle the truth!!” Jack Nicholson.

“Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight” Jack Nicholson.

And "what do you think you are, for Christ’s sake, crazy or something? Well you’re not! You’re not!” Jack Nicholson.

On Monday, all of these Jack Nicholsons (and the rest) turned 82.

While the actor, who hails from Monmouth County, has been absent from the screen for nearly a decade — talk of retirement has followed him, though he has had at least one canceled project in recent years — he was not forgotten on social media.

Fans shared their favorite roles and clips from the actor’s distinguished career, from “The Shining,” “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “A Few Good Men,” “Easy Rider,” “Five Easy Pieces,” "Batman,” “Chinatown” and more.

Nicholson, born John Joseph Nicholson, grew up in Neptune City and Spring Lake, graduating from Manasquan High School in 1954 (in 1974, he discovered that his sister, June Nicholson, was really his mother, and his mother was really his grandmother). In 2010, he was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

jack nicholson is 82 today. an icon. pic.twitter.com/PdcLPehKmU — Grey Jarvis (@grey_jarvis) April 22, 2019

The veteran actor has won three Oscars, falling just short of Katharine Hepburn’s record for the most acting actors (four).

Nicholson won the honors for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” in 1976, “Terms of Endearment” in 1984 and “As Good As it Gets” in 1998, having been nominated a total of 12 times in his career.

Film festivals, film purveyors, Nicholson fans and Twitter accounts for Nicholson’s collaborators, living and dead, remembered his many roles. They also shared behind-the-scenes photos and clips, along with their own Nicholson encounters and quotes from the actor on acting, life ... and pornography.

Happy 82nd Birthday Jack Nicholson!

"The less people know about me, the easier my job is." pic.twitter.com/zwE8lNyu7W — Marshall Julius (@MarshallJulius) April 22, 2019

Happy birthday (1937) to the great #JackNicholson. Narrowing his list of amazing roles to just 4 isn't easy, but here goes: I loved him as George in Easy Rider, Jake Gittes in Chinatown, Randle mcMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and Jack Torrance in The Shining. pic.twitter.com/QDWIgcvvm0 — Michael W. Freeman (@Freelineorlando) April 22, 2019

Happy 82nd Birthday to Jack Nicholson!🎈 pic.twitter.com/ZCE4x4vdzE — 90sManiax (@90sManiax) April 22, 2019

Happy birthday to three-time Oscar winner Jack Nicholson! pic.twitter.com/gr9z7cOsQq — Erik Anderson ❌ (@awards_watch) April 22, 2019

Jack Nicholson is 82.

Here he is having a heated discussion with a dog in the superb Five Easy Pieces. pic.twitter.com/pIZB0RLQuC — Tom Reagan’s Hat (@andymannion77) April 22, 2019

Jack Nicholson getting pumped up for the iconic ax scene in The Shining. pic.twitter.com/muqI4CWMUo — T.I.N.P (@Thisisnotporn) April 22, 2019

Happy Birthday to the one and only Jack Nicholson 🎉



What is your favourite Nicholson performance? pic.twitter.com/SQXbLKhDjU — TIFF (@TIFF_NET) April 22, 2019

"My motto is: more good times." Happy birthday to the great Jack Nicholson, whose cunning charm and irrepressible talent have made him an icon. pic.twitter.com/x0YlLOMgx3 — Criterion Collection (@Criterion) April 22, 2019

“I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I’m going to do it, if I can do it. Then I walk on set, the director says, ‘roll,’ and all of a sudden all of it disappears and it’s all happening, and I relax, and I’m doing what I do.” Happy 82nd birthday, Jack Nicholson! pic.twitter.com/YGBdYFvWmd — Tribeca (@Tribeca) April 22, 2019

Happy 82nd birthday to legendary actor and Lakers superfan Jack Nicholson.



While filming 'The Departed' in 2006, he reportedly had all Celtics gear banned from the set. pic.twitter.com/IqMnVXJ2Hj — Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) April 22, 2019

"There's so much darn porn out there, I never got out of the house."

―Jack Nicholson (born this day, April 22, 1937) pic.twitter.com/YmemRAqgWS — MacCocktail (@MacCocktail) April 22, 2019

Happy 82nd Birthday to the incomparable #JackNicholson!



"In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviourally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way"



"I'm definitely still wild at heart"#BOTD🎥🎬 pic.twitter.com/KlDEwwNTnQ — be•wilder (@bewildertheatre) April 22, 2019

Happy Birthday Jack Nicholson, we have almost every movie Jack ever starred in on VHS tape. Jack: "A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear." Jack Nicholson is 82 today, God love him. pic.twitter.com/FCvEyGDFWZ — Sean Mcdowell (@dvesean) April 22, 2019

Happy 82nd Birthday to the Vincent's Co-Star from 1963's The Raven, Mr Jack Nicholson! (Born April 22, 1937) pic.twitter.com/NLYoSfV3rp — TheFullPricePodcast (@FullPricePod) April 22, 2019

Happy 82nd birthday to #JackNicholson, who once threw his cigarette butt out at my feet while leaving Yankee Stadium after a dramatic Game 5 of the 2001 World Series - a cigarette butt that I picked up, took a drag out of, and have kept ever since. pic.twitter.com/qNWUTUdg01 — Bad Luck Bootsy (@ReallyBLBootsy) April 22, 2019

“My motto is: more good times." Happy birthday to the one and only Jack Nicholson! pic.twitter.com/IxPp7Sp8im — 41 Strange (@41Strange) April 22, 2019

happy birthday Jack Nicholson♥️

Chinatown

(Roman Polanski, 1974) pic.twitter.com/ZK7jpT2zsV — cinéma enjoyer (@cinema_enjoyer) April 22, 2019

Felices 82, Jack Nicholson pic.twitter.com/orVMq9r8w8 — Alta Peli (@altapeli) April 22, 2019

Jack Nicholson and Antonioni on the set of ‘The Passenger‘. pic.twitter.com/Ab9GBfB8S7 — Hermione Sylvester (@H_Sylvester20) April 22, 2019

👏 He’s an actor, director, producer and screenwriter with a career that has spanned over 60 years! Happy 82nd birthday, #JackNicholson. He’s the most nominated male actor in the Oscars’ history with 12 nominations and 3 wins! 🏆 What’s your favourite Jack Nicholson movie? 🎂 pic.twitter.com/ybwuFBy4Rb — VOX Cinemas - 2 DAYS (@voxcinemas) April 22, 2019

'Five Easy Pieces' (dir. Bob Rafelson) starring Jack Nicholson - f&f 04/71#JackNicholson pic.twitter.com/fl8PCfr2mn — films and filming (@FilmsFilming) April 22, 2019

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