Nick Nolte movie quotes

“- Hoover: Why do you eat while you're working? Why do you eat all the time?
- Coolidge: It's all psychological, Max. I eat so I don't think about food.”
Nick Nolte - Hoover
Chazz Palminteri - Coolidge

“Truth is, all my life I've really always been very shy around people. I guess I try to make up for that by making as many friends as I could.”
Nick Nolte - Seymour Flint

“- Botanist: If you were a communist how could you be king?
- Learoyd: Only a communist would think of it.”
Nigel Havers - Botanist
Nick Nolte - Learoyd

“- Botanist: Listen, you can no longer avoid history! I'm sorry. I've said that!
- Learoyd: Shut up. History? The world's so full of crap, sooner or later, you're gonna step in it. You call that history?”
Nigel Havers - Botanist
Nick Nolte - Learoyd

“The only thing that'll protect you is if I can't find you. And I already found you.”

Nick Nolte - Hoover

- Interrogating Officer: Before you go, there are some papers you will sign.
- Russell Price: What papers?
- Interrogating Officer: Your "visitation papers", Mr. Price. You were not arrested, you just came to visit. In case your embassy asks. You want your passport back, yes?
Enrique Beraza - Interrogating Officer
Nick Nolte - Russell Price

“Women are more devious than men. You're great at hiding things. You keep secrets. You smile when you lie. You expect a man to be a tower of strength. When he's got a few weaknesses and insecurities, what do you do? You turn around, and goddamn it, you betray him!”

Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“- Reggie Hammond: Now Jack, the both of us know that I'm gonna be an honest man from now on. Right?
- Jack Cates: Good.
- Reggie Hammond: But if I did decide to be a thief, what makes you think you can catch me?
- Jack Cates: [pause] Can I have my lighter back, Reggie?”
Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond
Nick Nolte - Jack Cates

“- Betty Ross: All you've given Bruce is fear. Fear of life.
- Father: Fear. Perhaps, Miss Ross. And loneliness, too. Yes. I feel them both.”
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Betty Ross
Nick Nolte - Father

“Your father was dirty. He was as dirty as they come. Nothing big, just penny-ante stuff. You know, free meals. A place to coop. For a while, he was a bag man for a pad in the South Bronx. The normal stuff. He took home $100, $150 a week. That's all. But hell, what a cop.”
Nick Nolte - Mike Brennan

“- Botanist: Do you trust me?
- Learoyd: Yes... If I have a choice between the good or bad in the man, I choose to believe the good.”
Nigel Havers - Botanist
Nick Nolte - Learoyd

“We go where the case takes us.”
Nick Nolte - Hoover

“Hell, Lowenstein! She made a schizophrenic! My mother should have raised cobras, not children!”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“- Jack Cates: I'm a cop, you're a crook.
- Reggie Hammond: Oh, get the fuck outta here! Just 'cause I'm a convict, every thin' that comes outta my mouth is a god damn lie?
- Jack Cates: That's right.”
Nick Nolte - Jack Cates
Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond

“You're the smartest man here. You got them all eating out of your hands. You could own this frigging hotel, except for one thing. You're black.”

Nick Nolte - Colonel Oliver

“- General Timms: What do you see?
- Hoover: People dead before their time.”

John Malkovich - General Timms
Nick Nolte - Hoover

“- John Converse: Don't they say this is where everybody finds out who they are?
- Ray Hicks: Yeah? What a bummer for the gooks.”

Michael Moriarty - John Converse
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“I have a special relationship with the spirits. I died once. I had to. I had to give up everything, even the will to live.”
Nick Nolte - Learoyd

“- Matt Hobbs: Washington? Washington, boy, that must have been a big adjustment.
- Nan Mulhanney: It wasn't that bad. Both places have a lot in common: Over-privileged people, crazed by their fear of losing their privileges. Alcoholism. Addiction. Betrayal. The near total degradation of what once were grand motives. The same spiritual...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nick Nolte - Matt Hobbs
Julie Kavner - Nan Mulhanney

“It's art. You give it up, you were never an artist in the first place.”

Nick Nolte - Lionel Dobie

“When I left the Marines I made myself a promise. Never again am I going to be fucked around by morons. The next mother who tries to make me back off is going to have to live it out with me.”
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“- Mr. Harvey Jenkins: After this party, I could never face my friends again if I were alive.
- Seymour Flint: Why would a man like you, with all these friends, want to get himself killed?”
William Duell - Mr. Harvey Jenkins
Nick Nolte - Seymour Flint

“Martin, if all this is what I think it is, there is someone very dangerous standing right behind you in the dark, breathing down your neck.”

Nick Nolte - Inspector Cray

“I love the lady and will continue to love her forever. If she were on one side of the globe and I on the other, I would pierce through the whole mass of the world to reach her.”
Nick Nolte - Thomas Jefferson

“- Conrad Hunter: There's one thing I learned early on in life. The most important thing a man can have.
- Phillip Elliott: What's that, money?
- Conrad Hunter: Luck. Luck tells me something about a man. If my people are lucky, they tap into a big field. If not, they can have every geology degree in the world and drill one dry duster after...” (continue)(continue reading)
Steve Forrest - Conrad Hunter
Nick Nolte - Phillip Elliott