Quotes from Nick Nolte

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

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

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.

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

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.

If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day.

The difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I'm capable.

The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.

I never caught on to being a bully.

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.

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.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

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.

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

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.

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

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.

The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other.

This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.

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.

Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

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.

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