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" 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
Hard Work
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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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" If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line. "
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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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" The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm capable. "
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" 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. "
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" Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth. "
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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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" The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted. "
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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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" 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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