117 Quotes by Nick Nolte

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.