Words matter. These are the best Nick Nolte Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.
I’d like to do one European film a year.
I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don’t know why that was.
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.
Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.
You don’t learn anything from success. You know, it’s comfortable, it’s nice, it’s warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.
The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.
Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn’t really have to do anything.
It’s fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight.
In America, the old are neglected.
You’re playing a role, but you’re still feeling it. You can walk away from it after ‘Cut,’ but if you’re playing a sad or mixed-up person, it’s hard to stay in that place for these longish period of times. You kind of have to check out.
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.
I’ve been in movies where the movie doesn’t come together but the role comes together, or the movie comes together but the role doesn’t come together or something like that. Something misses. It’s very difficult to make it hit on all cylinders – it’s just very rare.
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.
If you feel you have a film that’s valid, you stick your ass on the line.
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They’re what we call, when we’re working, ‘exaggerated realism.’
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 about it.’
Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.
I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I don’t regret any of them. Sometimes that’s the only way you learn.
You work at a job, and you reach a certain level, and you’re a little satisfied, and you keep going at it a little more, and you finally finish it. You go, ‘Ah,’ all your dopamine receptor sites are full. You’re satiated.
I can’t get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I – in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.
It’s easier to go somewhere if you’ve been there before.
All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.
In ‘Over the Hedge,’ I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they’re angry or happy.
We’re very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.
We’re social animals. We’ve got to get along together. It’s in our nature. We’re hardwired that way.
When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn’t know him. I was born in ’41.
Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don’t do that not knowing how to read.
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.
You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That’s how you achieve chemistry.
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.
The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.
American society is still puritanical.
When women talk about their feelings, they’re not asking for solutions.
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 actually beautiful and not something that marred you.
