Nick Nolte Quotes

Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor.

The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.

I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress becomes the part, just as a good singer becomes the song.

When I'm singing a song, I'm in that song, and I'm thinking about what emotions I should bring to the song. Voicing a character was very similar. It was high energy, and I had to really think about the emotion of what was going on in the scene.

Action is drama. If we cannot make the audience laugh, smile or cry with us, we are not actors.

What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

I just try not to look at any role as a comedic role or a dramatic role. I just try to stay in the movie I'm in.

This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.

When you see something that is well-written, the actors can get behind it.

If you know exactly what your character knows, it's a drama.

In the work that I normally do, you have a whole script, a whole arc, that you play. And I do believe a good actor will play every bit of information they're given.

I treat any scene the same - dialogue, action - you're still creating something in character. It's all acting, fighting.

When it comes to acting, you really have to create movement which in some ways is dancing. And dancing, I feel is very important to act as well. I wouldn't put one over the other.

Definitely in voice-over, you have to be completely uninhibited. More than that, you have to put yourself back into the enjoyment of pretending.

Modelling is only about the look. In acting, it's the feel that matters.

Honestly, as an actor, all I need to know, the way I kind of look at a scene, is like a puzzle. There are certain puzzle pieces that are bigger than others, and all I need to know is if this is going to fit here to make this part of the puzzle work.

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor - tell the story, and when it's told, there's another one to tell.

I've always found as an actress that the best thing to do in film or TV or theater is just to lose yourself in it. Think of the story, the character, the worlds we're in, and forget everything else.

I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.

You try, as an actor, to wear a mask; you're serving a story.

As an actor, you're always looking for, what do I get to do? It's not just what do I say, but what do I do, too.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

Let me put it this way. There is more to acting than just acting like somebody. I like to act in such a way that other people get some notion of what it's like to be somebody.

Every time when I start preparing my character for a movie, I always try to make up and create my own background story for the role in order to fill it with life.

Any actor I admire and enjoy working with - Sergi Lopez as the bad guy in 'Pan's Labyrinth,' or the little girl who played young Mako in 'Pacific Rim,' it makes no difference - I like actors with a very strong centre.