117 Quotes by Nick Nolte

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.

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.

I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me.

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

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

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.

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

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.