About Nick Nolte: Nicholas King is an American actor and former model.
The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.
We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.
It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight.
Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can real...
It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed, 'Here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable abou...
You have to struggle a bit, hustle a little, and be willing to go bankrupt. Once you're willing to do that, everything opens up and you get the freedom. My joke is that next year, I'll make the first film that costs zero dollars.
Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.
World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they won, but they could not express to anybody the horror they had been through.
When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.
Ageing's a difficult thing, moving closer to death, but it's okay. I've had a good time living, so I'm gonna have a good time dying.
When you are making the one you are doing, you think it is the greatest film going. And then you do another one and it is a great film.
I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.
Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.
Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy.
The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.
About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.
Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.
I've never been all that comfortable in real life.
You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit.
