Nick Nolte, 77, struggles to button up his shirt as he models pajamas during Malibu grocery run... after revealing Barbra Streisand fell in love with him

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Nick Nolte likes to be as comfortable as can be it seems.

When heading out for a grocery run in Malibu on Sunday, the 77-year-old actor wore a partially unbuttoned plaid shirt with his pajama bottoms.

This sighting comes after he shared in a DailyMail.com exclusive that his Prince Of Tides director Barbra Streisand was so in love with him that she begged the handsome movie idol to move in with her.

His look: Nick Nolte likes to be as comfortable as can be it seems. When heading out for a grocery run in Malibu on Sunday, the 77-year-old actor wore a partially unbuttoned plaid shirt with his pajama bottoms

Nick has a habit of dressing down when by the beach.

The Hollywood icon - who has starred in over 40 films including The Deep with Jacqueline Bisset and I Love Trouble with Julia Roberts - often wears pajama bottoms while running errands.

So it was not unusual to see him in the odd outfit.

Not new: The Hollywood icon - who has starred in over 40 films including The Deep with Jacqueline Bisset and I Love Trouble with Julia Roberts - often wears pajama bottoms while running errands

His top was red, white and blue while his bottoms were blue, green and white.

The 6ft1in star added worn-in brown shoes and carried a black man purse on his shoulder.

His hair was worn wild with a long beard, which could have been for a movie role.

He still works often with his next film being The Padre with Tim Roth.

Nolte has recently finished his long-awaited memoir. 'Chaos has always followed me like a randy dog,' he writes. 

Cleaning up: His top was red, white and blue while his bottoms were blue, green and white. The 6ft1in star added worn-in brown shoes and carried a black man purse on his shoulder

The Academy-award nominated actor arrived in Los Angeles in the early 1960s from the midwest and drifted right into the crazy drug-fueled scene of Laurel Canyon and Barney's Beanery, a rustic restaurant where a carnival of people met.

Just 21 years old at the time, he was already drinking heavily.

Now in Southern California, 'I loved adding other kinds of inebriates to my recreational repertoire and exploring where it would take me, but even I struggled to hold my own with the over-the-top kinds of insanity that were standard fare', he writes in Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines, his compelling, much anticipated memoir, published by William Morrow.

Hair scare: His hair was worn wild with a long beard, which could have been for a movie role. He still works often with his next film being The Padre with Tim Roth

He grew up with a manic energy that he exercised in playing football back in Iowa and Nebraska, but in Los Angeles, that energy adrenaline addiction had dissipated and he was now 'confused and lost'.

He often found himself passed out on Santa Monica Boulevard in front of Barney's Beanery and in grave danger of being run over.

He continued to head-butt parked cars as some kind of distraction from his emotional state.

Off for a gift? The icon was seen in a blue plaid shirt with grey slacks as he hit a floral shop in Malibu the day before

A creature of habit: The Cape Fear star had on the same shoes he wore to the grocery store

Before escaping the sunny southland and heading back to the mid-western cornfields, he connected with acting coach Bryan O'Byrne, who became a mentor to him and encouraged Nolte to 'focus on acting as a method of studying the human soul.'

It would be a decade before Nolte ventured back to Los Angeles.

In those intervening ten years he pursued acting in regional theaters in Iowa and Nebraska – until he was ready for the big time.

Flash forward to 1989 when he got a call and was asked to read for the role of tortured Tom Wingo in the bestselling novel, The Prince of Tides, which was to be directed by screen legend Barbra Streisand.

The trouble: Nolte first met Barbra Streisand while they were working together in the 1991 film Prince of Tides, which she directed

Crazy times: He describes feeling so 'drawn to her' that he knew they needed to talk about why 'they shouldn't slip into a romantic and sexual relationship' while working together

Dancing: Streisand had a reputation for being mean but Nolte saw 'she was totally thorough and prepared, and did a lot of research'

He tells how Barbra, who also co-starred, wanted Nolte to come over to her house, have a cocktail and introduce himself. 

She was staying at her apartment in Manhattan at the time, an entire floor of a park-side building.

She poured him a glass of red wine and they made small talk while she worried about him spilling the wine on her white carpets. 

Barbra wanted an extra scene in the film and asked if Nolte would jointly kick in $500,00. He agreed but admits he wasn't sure if that scene even made it into the film.

Nolte's Rebel: My Life Outside the Lines was released January 23, 2018

Streisand had a reputation for being mean but Nolte saw 'she was totally thorough and prepared, and did a lot of research.' 

They talked extensively about their characters' relationship and the romantic pull – and suddenly it was happening in real life.

'I was powerfully drawn to her just as she was to me, so much so that I knew that early on we needed to talk about the reasons why we shouldn't slip into a romantic and sexual relationship with each other as we worked,' Nolte writes.

He warned her it would be dangerous for the film – 'to have to carry a relationship and the story at the same time.' 

Two good to be true: He had a love affair with The Deep co-star Jacqueline Bisset (pictured) but it was short-lived and over before they finished shooting

Looking for gold: Here the couple were with actor Robert Shaw

'We can live in the fantasy of a relationship and that will survive, but an actual physical relationship might not survive the film,' he writes.  

However, shooting scenes, Streisand always wanted Nolte naked while she was covered with layers of sweaters.

'How come I've got to show my a** and you never show anything?' Nolte asked her.

'They don't pay me enough for me to show these tits,' Barbra responded.

While the film was going through editing, Nolte recalls Streisand had called him asked him to, 'come out and live with me.'

They didn't get along well: Nick said it was hard working with Julia Roberts on 1994's I Love Trouble

'I want to be with you,' she told him.

At the time, Nolte was raising his son Brawley and declined.

But he later realized what had inspired the call. Streisand had been watching the dailies - the unedited footage - and had fallen in love with Nolte's character, Tom Wingo, he says. 

'What do you want to be to me?' Streisand asked. 

Nolte responded: 'A good friend'.

'You don't know what I ask from my friends.' 

The film was released that Christmas and received seven Academy Award nominations and Nolte was named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive.

Nolte made headlines after his infamous arrest in 2002. He was arrested for reckless driving after taking GHB