Nick Nolte Quotes
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To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.
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A career in acting, it's a learning process.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.
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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!
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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.
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You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can’t run away from, so you have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is only that I choose not to do it. But I’m capable.
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The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.
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People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.
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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.
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Maybe there was a time that you could count on the American home as being the moral fabric center and that they would teach you right, but with the liberty of just divorcing without a thought, it's horrible.
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I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.
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This is a service station, we offer service. There is no higher purpose.
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First make peace inside yourself.
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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.
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When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.
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It's failure, really, that you grow by, although nobody likes to experience it.
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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.
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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.
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Our educational system now teaches every kid the same thing. It's like rubber stamping!
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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.
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Even though I play guitar, I don't do it publicly.
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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.
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In fact, a child is not even considered a human being.
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Success is a very scary thing especially after you choose something and everything starts coming at you. It's absolutely frightening because the mind does things. It says, 'You've got to hold on to this or get away from this.
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I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.
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Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.
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Every generation will be challenged morally once in their life about its government, and they will have to say where they stand.
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