Here’s what Jack Nicholson was quoted as saying in this month’s Men’s Journal:

You know, I’m phobically frightened of public speaking in a way that I find very unattractive. I get my household in a dither before such occasions. I call in everybody for their two cents.”

It’s not surprising that Nicholson is scared by public speaking. Speaking is fundamentally different from acting. Speaking is more personal and therefore more revealing. Nicholson deserves credit for admitting to a fear that afflicts most mortals.