The best Quotes by Nick Nolte

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.

When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you're getting old.

We're social animals. We've got to get along together. It's in our nature. We're hardwired that way.

When women talk about their feelings, they're not asking for solutions.

It’s our moments of struggle that define us.

Wade Jennings: "You can't hide from us, Banning."
Mike Banning: "Don’t worry about finding me. I'll find you."

Mike Banning: "You almost blew me up!"
Clay Banning: "You’re welcome."

Mike Banning: "You must really like fishing, Mr. President. It's cold out here."
Allan Trumbull: "Anything to get out of DC for a while."

I've lived out West some... I've always liked the High Plains areas - eastern Colorado, eastern Wyoming, western Nebraska.

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Nebraska - and that's pretty much the same thing.

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

The only way out of this labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

We think too much and feel too little.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, "I should be there; I should be helping out."

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.