Quotes from Nick Nolte

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

Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.

About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.

I'm glad I never went to war.

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.

Acting is always therapeutic.

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.

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

We all go through life and say a lot of things that we don't really mean.

Class isn't something you buy. Look at you ... you've got on a $500 suit and you're still a low life.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.