Jack Nicholson appears in this Sunday’s issue of Parade Magazine and his success and ageless charm may explain why young women still desire his company.

He admits, on most mornings he wakes up alone. “I’m such a wag!” he says, winking. “I’m a scamp. I don’t deny it. I like myself.” And he loves women. “I grew up in a beauty parlor my family ran, so I’m used to getting along with ladies. I prefer their com­pany, for the most part. I was pampered from the very beginning.”

His Take on Women: “These issues between men and women are not psychological. Look, remember what a gland is. Most of these are glandular issues. A gland is what allows that mother to lift that truck off a child. Whatever intelligent design is, it’s not going to leave the continuation of the human species up to fashion-crazy, flitting mentalities. It’s in those glands. The infatuation cycle of 18 months hasn’t changed a lot since the monkeys. Look at the numbers. Eighteen months is nine months doubled. A woman’s entire system is set so that when you’re having that procreative act with a woman, you’re dealing with a being whose actual cycle is nine months. It doesn’t have to do with her brain. It has to do with her entire bodily system, which is there to overcome the brain. We don’t legislate this stuff. We don’t out-think it. You cannot change these fundamental things that we are as human beings–but you can adjust to it.”

cover image courtesy: Parade Magazine