How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up. – Nick Nolte
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
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
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
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They’re what we call, when we’re working, ‘exaggerated realism.’ – Nick Nolte
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
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
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn’t know how to talk to each other. – Nick Nolte
Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you. – Nick Nolte
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In the sixties, you’re still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body. – Nick Nolte
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
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
