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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. — Nick Nolte

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All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another. — Nick Nolte

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I'm pretty much of a physical actor. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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I'm glad I never went to war. — Nick Nolte

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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire ... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle. — Nick Nolte

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

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Acting is always therapeutic. — Nick Nolte

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There's no greater purpose than service to others. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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

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American society is still puritanical. — Nick Nolte

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

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I've never been all that comfortable in real life. — Nick Nolte

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If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out. — Nick Nolte

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Success comes to you with luck and a lot of hard work, but it doesn't give you the right to be any better than anybody else. — Nick Nolte

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It's easier to go somewhere if you've been there before. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth. — Nick Nolte

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

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First make peace inside yourself. — Nick Nolte

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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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In America, the old are neglected. — Nick Nolte

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You don't want to make awards the reason you're doing things. — Nick Nolte

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

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When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41. — Nick Nolte

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Violence isn't really my thing. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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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 actually beautiful and not something that marred you. — Nick Nolte

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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 really hear a difference. — Nick Nolte

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Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences. — Nick Nolte

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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.' — Nick Nolte

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It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight. — Nick Nolte

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We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way. — Nick Nolte

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

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

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

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We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change. — Nick Nolte

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

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The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other. — Nick Nolte

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The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence. — Nick Nolte

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Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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Acting is a bit of a substitute for life. — Nick Nolte

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I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew. — Nick Nolte

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

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

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If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates. — Nick Nolte

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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school. — Nick Nolte

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I've been called 'the voice actor.' — Nick Nolte

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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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

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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. — Nick Nolte

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Yes, you can get addicted to exercise. — Nick Nolte

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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. — Nick Nolte

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If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day. — Nick Nolte

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Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside. — Nick Nolte

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

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I never caught on to being a bully. — Nick Nolte

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No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness. — Nick Nolte

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