Nick Nolte

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“In America, the old are neglected.”

“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.”

“American society is still puritanical.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit.”

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

“I can't ad-lib, or not for long.”

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

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