Nick Nolte Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

First make peace inside yourself.

There's no greater purpose than service to others.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

You've got to admit failure sometimes.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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