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" Violence isn't really my thing. "
Nick Nolte
Violence
Really
Thing
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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. "
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" Acting is always therapeutic. "
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" How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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Find
Conquer
Fear
" 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. "
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Learn
" You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. "
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" With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling. "
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Value
Trying
" If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line. "
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You
Stick
" 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. "
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Best
Going
Early
" I never caught on to being a bully. "
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Caught
Being
Never
" 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. "
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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. "
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You
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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. "
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Get
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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. "
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Dying
Death
Moving
" I've never been all that comfortable in real life. "
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Real
Life
Comfortable
" Yes, you can get addicted to exercise. "
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You
Yes
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" The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence. "
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Gave
" 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. "
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Nothing
" You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry. "
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" It's easier to go somewhere if you've been there before. "
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" I can't ad-lib, or not for long. "
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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. "
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" I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there. "
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" Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility. "
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Nobody
Reach
Power
" 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. "
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Lack
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Way
" If I'm not a successful human being, who I am? "
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