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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. "
Nick Nolte
Know
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Born
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" 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. "
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" I never caught on to being a bully. "
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" Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences. "
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" 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 give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry. "
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" I'm glad I never went to war. "
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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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Face
Mother
" It's easier to go somewhere if you've been there before. "
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" Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination. "
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Imagination
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" Violence isn't really my thing. "
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Violence
Really
Thing
" Acting is a bit of a substitute for life. "
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Acting
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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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" 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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Women
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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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Fun
New
Find
" Now, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy. "
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Food
Science
Unknown
" I'd like to do one European film a year. "
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Year
Like
" I can't ad-lib, or not for long. "
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Long
" 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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You
" 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.' "
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Me
Life
I Can
" 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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Always
You
Disguise
" Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you. "
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People
Hollywood
Angles
" I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was. "
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Always
Why
Shy
" If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day. "
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Cancer
Clean
" If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out. "
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Hole
Dig
Out
" 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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Like
Movies
" The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence. "
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" I'm pretty much of a physical actor. "
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" Yes, you can get addicted to exercise. "
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You
Yes
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" 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
Research
Way