Nick Nolte Net Worth

Nick Nolte's Quotes

• [at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival, on the "obscene" amounts being paid to actors] It's sick. I want nothing to do with it.
• Early on, I decided that I was going to lie to the press. The best approach to talking about my personal life was to lie.
• I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes, that's the only way you learn.
• America is in a difficult position right now. It has so much wealth, it has become obese and gluttonous. It will change but it has to get through this time now. It's not that I wish I was not from America. It just goes through these peculiar times. I could live anywhere. But I wouldn't want to abandon a country just because it's being silly. I'll do what we did in 1968, and try and change it and get some sense into it.
• There's nothing in the United States to do except the independents. Certainly not in the studios. It's a situation where films are made for $100m and they knock out all competition. Their audiences are eight to 20. It feels silly being a 60-plus year-old man in those films, which are basically cartoons and high technology.

Interesting Facts about Nick Nolte

1. He, along with Christopher Walken, were both considered for the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977).
2. In 1962, Nolte was convicted for selling fake draft cards and was sentenced to a seventy-five year jail sentence and a $75,000 fine. He was suspended under the terms of the Youth Corrections Act and was on probation throughout the length of the Vietnam War. He was warned by the judge that if he was arrested for any other crime he would be jailed under the original conviction terms.
3. In 1978, Karen Ecklund, his girlfriend of five years, sued him for community property and support.
4. Nolte gained 50 pounds for his role in Q & A (1990).
5. Parents are Franklin Arthur and Helen Nolte.
6. Nolte was a heavy drinker until 1990. When Katharine Hepburn accused him of falling down drunk in every gutter in town, he replied: "I've got a few to go yet.".
7. In 1992, he was chosen as People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.
8. In September 2002, he checked himself into Silver Hill Hospital in Connecticut for counseling after he was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving in Malibu, California, a few days earlier. Tests later showed that he was under the influence of GHB, the "date rape" drug.
9. On December 12, 2002, he pleaded no contest to charges of driving under the influence. He was given 3-years' probation with orders to undergo alcohol and drug counseling with random testing required.
10. Attended Westside High School in Omaha, Nebraska.
11. Attended Kingsley Elementary School in Waterloo, Iowa
12. His ancestry includes English, German, Scottish, Scots-Irish and Swiss-German. His paternal grandfather was a farmer, with a farm in Iowa.
13. His career started in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the Eleanor Moore Agency as a model for print ads.
14. His father was an irrigation pump salesman. His father was also an All-American candidate at Iowa State in 1934. His mother was a department store buyer. He has an older sister, Nancy Nolte, who was an executive for Red Cross.
15. Was supposed to host Saturday Night Live: Eddie Murphy/Lionel Richie (1982) as part of the promotional tour for 48 Hrs. (1982), which was the film debut of then Saturday Night Live (1975) star Eddie Murphy, but fell ill at the last minute and had to drop out, so Murphy hosted in his place.
16. He was considered for the role of Superman/Clark Kent in Superman (1978), which went to Christopher Reeve. Legend has it that he wanted to play the role as a schizophrenic.
17. There is a long-standing misconception that Dr. Charles Nolte, professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, is Nick Nolte's father.
18. Visited Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia). [August 2006]
19. Ranked #1 of VH1's "40 Most Shocking Celebrity Mugshots" - had a Hawaiian shirt and a bed-head.
20. Director Keith Gordon took a one-day role in I Love Trouble (1994) to personally ask Nick Nolte to read the screenplay for Mother Night (1996), after being initially dismissed by Nolte's agent.