Nick Nolte
Nick Nolte
Nicholas King "Nick" Nolte is an American actor and former model. He won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1991 film The Prince of Tides. He went on to receive Academy Award nominations for Afflictionand Warrior. His other film appearances include The Deep, 48 Hrs., Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Another 48 Hrs., Everybody Wins, Cape Fear, Lorenzo's Oil, The Thin Red...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 February 1941
CityOmaha, NE
CountryUnited States of America
We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.
If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.
If I'm not a successful human being, who I am?
I never caught on to being a bully.
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.
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
In the sixties, you're still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body.
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.
Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is a rhythm and it's very peaceful, very quiet. You see, it's quite a miracle.
I have a high degree of sensitivity, always have. I was very shy as a child. I don't know why that was.
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.
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.
Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.
I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.