“I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I po...” — Nick Nolte Quote

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.

If you had a cancer on your skin and had it burned it off, you'd wash it and clean it every day.

In 'Over the Hedge,' I played a bear, and I spent all this time listening to the sounds they make when they fight and mate, when they're angry or happy.

Acting is a bit of a substitute for life.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

I remember my grandmother's husband dying. But I think I was older. I think I was 7 or 8 when he died. But I remember that being the first real person I knew who died, and I - and that my parents didn't let me go to the funeral. And I remember feeling like it was really unfair.

The only thing that scares me is dying.

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.