Nick Nolte Quotes

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

I don't go out and pick fights.

I'm not a fighter. I'm not a tough guy at all. I walk away from fights.

I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things.

Violence isn't really my thing.

Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them.

I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.

Nobody's ever wanted to start a fight. I stay away from all that stuff.

I'm actually a pretty quiet guy when it comes to fighting. I'm pretty serious. When I go out to fight people I'm not a big talker.

I really hated fighting people and hurting them, but felt unable to stop.

I don't fight people for fun.

I just fight in my movies, never in real life.

When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

I'm not a violent person; I'm not interested in violence.

I don't think about fights that didn't happen.

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

My last fight was more than 20 years ago. I'm not a fighter, I'm a lover. If somebody's going to speak bad about me, I will walk away. But if a guy like Steven Seagal slaps me once, I will slap him twice as hard. Life is full of violence.

It is better to take many injuries than to give one.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

Violence is absolutely not our method.

I'm not a fighter. If there's something going on that I really feel strongly about, I'll certainly stand up but I pick my battles.

Well, I have been in physical altercations, but they weren't really fights because I am too scared and Jewish. So anytime that it gets to a point where there is gonna be a fight, I immediately apologize.

I don't really try to tell people whether they should fight. It's definitely not for everybody.

Son, never throw a punch at a redwood.