Quotes from Nick Nolte

World War II affected the male population in a very detrimental way. They were happy to be home, happy to be alive, happy they won, but they could not express to anybody the horror they had been through.

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

I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.

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.

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

It's fun to change your body and find new things that your body does because of the weight.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

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

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

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.

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

How do I relax? Meditate, I guess. I quit golf. You twist your back and get all cranked up.

In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy.

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

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.'

In America, the old are neglected.

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.

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

Obviously I had gone all through high school and into college, and you don't do that not knowing how to read.

With 3D, all you're doing is trying to shock the audience; there's no value to the storytelling.

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.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

If you feel you have a film that's valid, you stick your ass on the line.