Nick Nolte (Nicholas King Nolte) Quotes

A career in acting, it's a learning process.

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• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

  

  Manly Hall
  • Chaos
  • Step
  • Boredom

• When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Child
  • Well
  • Vegetables

• I'm a huge horror movie fan. Beyond belief.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • Belief
  • Horror

• I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Remember
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • People
  • Better
  • Friendship

• It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.

  

  Karolina Kurkova
  • Business
  • Day
  • Fight

• These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Why
  • Myself

• On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there. When they smile - right, you've seen people stop - all of a sudden, life is being lived there, somewhere up in that weird, dense network.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Time
  • House
  • Period

• There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Kids
  • Age
  • Kid

• His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • God
  • Man
  • Thought

• So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • People
  • Want
  • Poetry

• Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

  

  Mae West
  • Funny
  • Always
  • Never

• I'm envious of actors. You shoot a movie or you do a season of 'Big Love,' and then you're on hiatus and you have a bunch of free time.

  

  Jack McCollough
  • Time
  • Free
  • Actors

• We tend to be more environmental at home than at work, regardless of the industry we're in.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • Work
  • Home
  • Environmental

• Laurence Olivier said in an interview once that when he plays a tragedy he always aims for the funny parts, and the other way around. Because in a comedy you look for what's serious. I think that's true. Sometimes things are really funny if you're absolutely earnest. If you're really serious, it's hilarious.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • True
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Parents

• You have a great result if the orchestra trusts the conductor, and the conductor trusts the orchestra.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Great

• My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Kids
  • Advice
  • Mantra

• You've got to listen to your guests.

  

  Daniel Humm

• Say, whence is the voice that, when anger is burning, Bids the whirl of the tempest to cease? That stirs the vexed soul with an aching - a yearning For the brotherly hand-grip of peace?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Soul
  • Peace
  • Hand

• I am still learning about love. I thought I understood it--not just mother love, but the love for one's parents, for one's husband, and for one's laotong. I've experienced the other types of love--pity love, respectful love and gratitude love. But looking at our secret fan with its messages written between Snow Flower and me over many years, I see that I didn't value the most important love--deep-heart love.

  

  Lisa See
  • Important
  • Heart
  • Love

• A career in acting, it's a learning process.

  

  Nick Nolte
  • Learning
  • Acting
  • Process