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" Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.' "
Nick Nolte
Action
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" We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change. "
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" Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth. "
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" 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. "
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" It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight. "
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" The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted. "
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" Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you. "
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" After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence. "
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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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" In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body. "
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" 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. "
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" You don't want to make awards the reason you're doing things. "
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" When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41. "
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" I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there. "
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" In America, the old are neglected. "
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" 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. "
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" Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another. "
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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. "
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Brain
Nothing
" 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. "
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" You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. "
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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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" Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination. "
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" No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way. "
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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. "
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