Nick Nolte movie quotes

“- Father: How little you understand, Miss Ross. And how dangerous your ignorance has become.
- Betty Ross: I'm sorry?
- Father: Don't be sorry. My son is... unique. That's why you can't relate to him. And because he is unique, the world will not tolerate his existence. Will they? But you - you try. Don't you?”
Nick Nolte - Father
Jennifer Lynn Connelly - Betty Ross

“Look at this jungle. Look at those vines, the way they twine around, swallowing everything. Nature's cruel, Staros.”
Nick Nolte - Lt. Col. Tall

“- Ray Hicks: Your husband once told somebody I was a psychopath.
- Marge Converse: That's the kind of thing he'd say.
- Ray Hicks: Do you think he could be right?
- Marge Converse: It's a very imprecise term.”
Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks
Tuesday Weld - Marge Converse

“- Prison Priest: Whose side are you on?
- Russell Price: I don't take sides. I take pictures.
- Prison Priest: No sides? Go home.”

Enrique Lucero - Prison Priest
Nick Nolte - Russell Price

“I don't want to get in a bar fight. People are always getting in bar fights. It's such a damn cliche. You hear about it all the time and you see it in the motion pictures, people are getting hit in the head with beer bottles, and furniture, and... [breaks a bottle over a man's head]”
Nick Nolte - Jack Cates

“See? That's federal property. This isn't. This is L.A. This is my town. Out here you're a trespasser. Out here I can pick you up, burn your house, fuck your wife, and kill your dog.”

Nick Nolte - Hoover

“- Jo Bob Priddy: Where's your gun, Elliott?
- Phillip Elliott: Freud says that guns are an extension of your dick, Jo Bob.”
Bo Svenson - Jo Bob Priddy
Nick Nolte - Phillip Elliott

“- Dr. Donna Burke: We, the board members present, think that you should tender your resignation.
- Alex Jurel: My resignation? What for?
- Dr. Donna Burke: Because, Mr. Jurel, no one here wants to go through the pain of firing you.”
Lee Grant - Dr. Donna Burke
Nick Nolte - Alex Jurel

“- Ben Kehoe: Christ, you really toasted that guy, Jack.
- Jack Cates: Ah, goddammit, I didn't toast the guy! I just shot him! For Chrissakes, don't say I toasted him, Ben!”
Brion James - Ben Kehoe
Nick Nolte - Jack Cates

“- Eddie Detreville: How is Savannah? When can I see her?
- Tom Wingo: I don't know, Eddie. It's like talking to a fern.
- Eddie Detreville: I'm glad she's improving.”
George Carlin - Eddie Detreville
Nick Nolte

“- Herbert Woodruff: That Stradivarius is worth over a million dollars!
- Tom Wingo: Well, if I drop it, it won't be worth shit.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

- Jack Cates: Hey, I can read a police file, shit-head. Quit calling me "Jack".
- Reggie Hammond: It's just an expression, all right? I don't mean nothin' by it.
- Jack Cates: I don't give a damn. It happens to be my name.
- Reggie Hammond: What the hell you complainin' for? At least nobody callin' you "shit-head".
Nick Nolte - Jack Cates
Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond

“- Dave Whiteman: Who's going to run my business? Who's going to pay my bills? Who's...
- Jerry Baskin: You got enough money to last ten lifetimes!
- Dave Whiteman: Maybe I ought to become a bum. No job, no responsibilities...
- Jerry Baskin: You wouldn't last five minutes.”
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Dave Whiteman
Nick Nolte - Jerry Baskin

“- Reggie Hammond: Not a very popular place with the brothers.
- Jack Cates: My kinda place. I always liked country boys. They're sure as hell don't like you.”

Eddie Murphy - Reggie Hammond
Nick Nolte - Jack Cates

“How many men is it worth? How many lives? One? Two? Twenty? Lives will be lost in your company, Captain. If you don't have the stomach for it, now is the time to let me know.”
Nick Nolte - Lt. Col. Tall

“The only time you should start worrying about a soldier is when they stop bitchin'.”
Nick Nolte - Lt. Col. Tall

“I'm sick of my sister's attraction to razor blades - and I'm sick of shrinks who can't do a fucking thing to help her.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“- Learoyd: Who's Vivienne? You kept mentioning her name.
- Botanist: She's my fiancée.
- Learoyd: So that's why you wouldn't... I said I never trusted a man who had no woman. I was beginning to worry about you.”
Nick Nolte - Learoyd
Nigel Havers - Botanist

“Explanations are just a fiction to make us feel safe. Because if it can't be explained, then it's just meaningless chaos. It could touch any one of us at any moment. Which is exactly what it is.”

Nick Nolte - Inspector Cray

“- Tom Wingo: How about Luke? Do you ever think about Luke? Does he ever cross your mind?
- Lila Wingo Newbury: Who taught you to be so cruel?
- Tom Wingo: You did, Mama, you did.”

Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo
Kate Nelligan - Lila Wingo Newbury

“Most people, when they see something like this, their immediate reaction is to ask how could somebody do this and why. Even when we catch the killer, they want to know the how and why.”
Nick Nolte - Inspector Cray

“- Russell Price: Pardon my French, but who's fucking side are you on?
- Marcel Jazy: I work for everyone.
- Russell Price: That's a great job!”
Nick Nolte - Russell Price
Jean-Louis Trintignant - Marcel Jazy

“They're animals. You can't make a deal with animals”

Nick Nolte - Ray Hicks

“I'm not too strong anymore and I've just about run out of money. Pretty soon I won't be able to do much of anything for anyone. I had though maybe my family would care, but all they wanted to do was send me to a little furnished room where I could die in front of a TV set.”
Nick Nolte - Seymour Flint

“- Rolfe Whitehouse: I was always careful around Pop. I was a careful child. And I'm a careful adult. But at least I was never afflicted with that man's anger.
- Wade Whitehouse: That's what you think.”
Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse
Nick Nolte - Wade Whitehouse