American - Actor | February 8, 1941 -
Action films have a certain illogicalness to them. They're what we call, when we're working, 'exaggerated realism.'
Nick Nolte
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I'm glad I never went to war.
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I'd like to do one European film a year.
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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.
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The thing about '48 Hrs.' that really isn't thought about much is that's the first film where the black and the white criticize each other.
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After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.
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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.
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Acting is always therapeutic.
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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.
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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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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.
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You don't want to make awards the reason you're doing things.
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