Nick Nolte Quotes

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

In another couple of generations, we're really gonna see the effect of this single-parent raising. And I think that's the problem. That's the disconnect. That's the miscommunication.

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

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

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.

It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

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.

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

First make peace inside yourself.

People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.

There's no greater purpose than service to others.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Just because your wife schmoozes with somebody too much, you can't go throwing the kids out with the bath water! And that's the way the law's tied up right now.

In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.

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

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.

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

I don't see myself stopping, even though it gets harder and harder. Especially when you find out that you can't really compromise because of age.

Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.

Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!

One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

You've got to admit failure sometimes.

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

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 never liked the Oscars. They didn't do too much for me at all. I felt like a big, vulnerable hunk of baloney being used to sell some products.

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

I should really be retired. But then you find out how much you get in retirement. I don't know how you make it. It's really rough!

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

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