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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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" 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

Life

I Can

" 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. "

" Acting is always therapeutic. "

" Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth. "

" 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. "

" I'd like to do one European film a year. "

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Year

" 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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Film

Struggle

" I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was. "

" Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination. "

" 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. "

" The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted. "

" In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body. "

" Acting is a bit of a substitute for life. "

" 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. "

" If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out. "

" Violence isn't really my thing. "

" How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up. "

Nick Nolte

Quit

Relax

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Yes, you can get addicted to exercise. "

" No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You don't want to make awards the reason you're doing things. "

" With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling. "

" In America, the old are neglected. "

" 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. "

" If I'm not a successful human being, who I am? "

Nick Nolte

Human Being

Human