Nick Nolte

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

“Americans aren't good at accents, but the English are because their accents change. You go five or six blocks and the accent is different, so they are used to hearing different pitches. In America, you gotta travel maybe 10 states before you can really hear a difference.”

“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.”

“Actors are really working with bodies, with their minds, and with their emotions. Feelings, basically. That's what movies are about, going from one feeling to another.”

“I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.”

“No one consciously wants to destroy themselves. It always comes in a disguise. But then you have to deal with it some way.”

“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.”

“It's easier to go somewhere if you've been there before.”

“The greatest movie would be the movie that gave the audience a cathartic feeling of transcendence.”

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

“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 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.'”

“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.”

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

“I never caught on to being a bully.”

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

“Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.”

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

“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.”

“You don't learn anything from success. You know, it's comfortable, it's nice, it's warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.”