Nick Nolte movie quotes

“The only thing we have in common is that we're both wrong for each other.”

Nick Nolte - Doc

“- Seymour Flint: You know, I've never known any old people before.
- Grace Quigley: Neither had I until one day I looked around and discovered I was one.”
Nick Nolte - Seymour Flint
Katharine Hepburn - Grace Quigley

“Boys, the rules don't make much sense. But I believe in the rules. Some of us broke them. I broke them. I can't do this. I can't win like this.”
Nick Nolte - Pete Bell

“I suppose Henry Wingo would have been a pretty good father - if he hadn't been such a violent man.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“I have to pick up my assistant at the airport. I don't know why she can't take a cab like everybody else.”

Nick Nolte - Lionel Dobie

“If you get yourself in a hole, you dig yourself out.”
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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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“Asking for forgiveness is just one of the most painful kind of experiences.”
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“The only people who ever called me a rebel were people who wanted me to do what they wanted.”
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“I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.”
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“- Reggie Hammond: How much of my money did you spend?
- Jack Cates: Oh, about 25 grand. You said I could buy a new car.
- Reggie Hammond: So where is it?
- Jack Cates: This is the new car!
- Reggie Hammond: This looks like the same piece-of-shit sky blue Cadillac you had before!
- Jack Cates: Yeah, I bought the same make, model, year, color,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond
Nick Nolte - Jack Cates

“Blood must be answered with blood.”
Nick Nolte - Learoyd

“We found a silent soothing world where there was no pain. A world without mothers or fathers.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“- Jack Cates: Look, asshole, you just took a shot at me. I think you know something.
- Luther: Yeah? Well, who gives a fuck what you think?”
Nick Nolte - Jack Cates
David Patrick Kelly - Luther

“- Seymour Flint: Ma, you're asking me to commit murder!
- Grace Quigley: Son, I may ask you to kill, but I would never ask you to murder! Call it pest control.”
Nick Nolte - Seymour Flint
Katharine Hepburn - Grace Quigley

“- Four Leaf Tayback - Vietnam Crew: I've never been outside the States.
- Cody - Vietnam Crew: Wait what? Are you fucking kidding me? Did you make this whole goddamn thing up? Dude you weren't even in the fucking service?
- Four Leaf Tayback - Vietnam Crew: Yes! Of course! Coast Guard!
- Cody - Vietnam Crew: Coast Guard.
- Four Leaf Tayback -...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Nolte - Four Leaf Tayback - Vietnam Crew
Danny McBride - Cody - Vietnam Crew

“Some place in America right now, there's some 10-year-old kid. He's out there on that playground, and he's playing, he's dribbling between his legs, he's going left, he's going right, he's already above the rim, and he's stuffing it home. And you know what's going to happen to this kid? Five minutes from now he's gonna be surrounded by ya....” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Nolte - Pete Bell

“- Tom Wingo: I cry sometimes, Lowenstein. I cry at weddings, at the Olympics. I'm real big at the national anthem.
- Susan Lowenstein: But not over Luke?
- Tom Wingo: What the hell for? It wouldn't bring him back.
- Susan Lowenstein: No. But it might bring you back.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo
Barbra Streisand - Susan Lowenstein

“- Wade Whitehouse: Love? What the fuck do you know about love?
- Glen Whitehouse: Love? I'm made of love!”
Nick Nolte - Wade Whitehouse
James Coburn - Glen Whitehouse

“I took everything that was dear to me and transformed it into nothing more than a memory.”
Nick Nolte - Father

“From my mother I inherited a love of language and an appreciation of nature. She could turn a walk around the island into a voyage of purest discovery. As a child, I thought she was the most extraordinary woman on earth.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“From this day, from this time on, I'll never raise my hand against another man.”
Nick Nolte - Learoyd

“- Colonel Oliver: You're dirt. We think you're dirt, Paul.
- Paul Rusesabagina: Who is we?
- Colonel Oliver: The West. All the super powers. Everything you believe in, Paul. They think you're dirt. They think you're dumb. You're worthless.”
Nick Nolte - Colonel Oliver
Don Cheadle - Paul Rusesabagina

“- Phillip Elliott: Jo Bob is here to remind us that the biggest and the baddest get to make all the rules.
- Charlotte Caulder: I don't agree with that.
- Phillip Elliott: Agreeing doesn't play into it.”
Nick Nolte - Phillip Elliott
Dayle Haddon - Charlotte Caulder

“Dwayne, you can get through college half-assed. Richard, you can get through life half-assed. But I'll guarantee you boys one thing: sure as hell, I'll guarantee you this: you cannot win half-assed!”
Nick Nolte - Pete Bell