With 3D, all you’re doing is trying to shock the audience; there’s no value to the storytelling. – Nick Nolte
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
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
The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable. – Nick Nolte
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
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
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
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
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
It’s fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight. – Nick Nolte
Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don’t do that not knowing how to read. – 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. – 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. – Nick Nolte
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
The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted. – Nick Nolte
We’re social animals. We’ve got to get along together. It’s in our nature. We’re hardwired that way. – Nick Nolte
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
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
