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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. "

Nick Nolte

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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. "

" 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

" When women talk about their feelings, they're not asking for solutions. "

" Nobody likes to lose power or reach a point of humility. "

" I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Acting is always therapeutic. "

" I've never been all that comfortable in real life. "

" 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. "

Nick Nolte

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" I'm glad I never went to war. "

" 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. "

" Yes, you can get addicted to exercise. "

" You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry. "

Nick Nolte

Chemistry

You

" 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. "

" If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates. "

" I'm pretty much of a physical actor. "

" We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change. "

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

" All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you. "

" The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school. "

Nick Nolte

You

Know

" 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. "

" Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.' "

" We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way. "

" 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. "

" I can't ad-lib, or not for long. "

Nick Nolte

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" 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. "