Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Nick Nolte - Page 2

Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

In America, the old are neglected.

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

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.

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.

I never caught on to being a bully.

I never fought much. It just wasn't my thing. I suppose I could, but I've never got into fights. Not a real one.

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

I can't ad-lib, or not for long.

When women talk about their feelings, they're not asking for solutions.

The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm capable.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

I've been called 'the voice actor.'

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit.

Women are just more oriented toward feelings - and I don't mean that in a negative way. But with a male actor and a male director, the emotional exploration can only go so far. With a female director, you can end up exploring so many more depths.

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.

One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

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.

If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.

Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.

People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

There's no greater purpose than service to others.

To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. 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.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

The corn that is B something 5 corn thats been genetically altered in the United States, it cant reproduce but it has huge kernels, its very sweet and its wonderful but the winds have blown this across into Mexico. And so the Mexican corn is being infected with the inability to reproduce.

Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!

Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now.

Maybe there was a time that you could count on the American home as being the moral fabric center and that they would teach you right, but with the liberty of just divorcing without a thought, it's horrible.

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.

First make peace inside yourself.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, "By God, I will not change. I will not have this." Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit.

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

You've got to admit failure sometimes.

I never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.

I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!

We all go through life and say a lot of things that we don't really mean.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.