Quotes by Nick Nolte

About Nick Nolte:

Nicholas King is an American actor and former model.
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If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.

Nick Nolte

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

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Early on I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.

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We truly have an ancient part of the brain that was about survival when we were prey but we seem to have gone past prey. We eat everything and nothing eats us.

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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.

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I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

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The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.

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If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?

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If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.

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You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

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In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.

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I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.

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I have a lot of scars, man. My mother said that a man is not a man unless he has a scar on his face. And what she meant by a scar was some kind of battle that you had to go through, whether it was psychological or physical. To her, a scar was actuall...

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Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

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Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'

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Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

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After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

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I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.

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I'm pretty much of a physical actor.

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I'd like to do one European film a year.

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Author Bio

  • NameNick Nolte
  • DescriptionActor, film producer
  • BornFebruary 8, 1941
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Film Producer; Model