Nick Nolte quotes

The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted. (Nick Nolte)
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. View quote
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Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you. View quote
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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. View quote
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Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences. View quote
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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. View quote
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Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth. View quote
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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. View quote
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No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line. View quote
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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. View quote
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