A biography for Nick Noltehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?”
“Violence isn't really my thing.”
“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.”
“The truth was that, you know, there was no reason to send me to Shattuck Military School. But it was a disciplinarian school.”
“We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Electing a black president was probably the only coup America could pull off.”
“Acting is always therapeutic.”
“In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.”
“I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.”
“If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.”
“Sometimes the writing can be so good that the actor doesn't really have to do anything.”
“After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.”
“I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.”
“The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.”
“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.”
“All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.”
“Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.”