Nicolas Cage famous quotes

Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Believe

I think that movies can help guide us through those experiences [the problems that are happening in our daily lives, the stresses between countries, the economy and global warming]. I think all art tries to grapple with, redefine, come to terms with, express what's happening now when it's working. You can be entertained, but you can also be stimulated to think about things.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Country #Art #Stress

I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Independence #Declaration Of Independence #Stealing

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Character #Trying #Want

I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Dvds #Giving #Rays

When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.
-- Nicolas Cage

#People #Pressure #Want

To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Acting #Actors #Criminals

I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people's minds.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Tired #Thinking #People

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Responsibility #Action #Ability

Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don't really understand why they can't wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking #Choices #Together

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Sharks #Panthers #Lizards

I generally enjoy the rehearsal process because that's where you can share your ideas, get your thoughts and feelings out and see whether or not they're going to land, whether or not people are going to agree with them, particularly the director. So you can sort out in that process any elements that need to be sorted out before you're on the set, and of course that saves time and it also makes everyone more comfortable working together.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Land #Ideas #People

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Believe #Thinking #Careers

My father used to say to me, "It doesn't matter what the profession is, but if they're the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch." And I said, "Really, dad? Even like someone who makes pencils?" "Even someone who makes pencils, it will be fascinating to watch."
-- Nicolas Cage

#Dad #Father #Watches

Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Depressing #Passion #Important

I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means that you have to try a little bit of everything in the hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note or new sound or new expression in the process. I'm not going for grades. I'm going for an education. That means I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Mean #Expression #Trying

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Snakes #Stories

I always say, "Well if you think it's over the top, then tell me where the top is first. I don't think anyone can, but if you can tell me where the top is, then I'll tell you whether or not I'm over it."
-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking #Firsts #Wells

Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Opportunity #Lines #Scratches

If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Believe #People #Support

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Pain #Opportunity #Actors

I like to work with young people because young people haven't had their dreams kicked out of them yet. They're full of confidence and imagination and vision and when they score, that all get's empowered.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Dream #Imagination #People

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Book #Interesting #Comic

I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Students #Grows #Hopefully

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Inspirational #Powerful #Thinking

I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Animal #Whales #Bird

I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Cynical #Nerd #Too Much

We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Father #Son #Chinese

My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Children #Father #Empowering

I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Way #Zeppelins #Embrace

Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. So automatically you're getting closer to potentially divine sources of interest because it is abstract. It's one of the only ways that a film actor can express himself in the abstract and have audiences still go along for the ride. They don't contend it. They accept it, that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imagination, a bit more out there, and that's more and more where I like to dance.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Intelligent #Roots #Imagination

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Acting #Lines #Actors

One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.
-- Nicolas Cage

#People #Different #Add

I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'
-- Nicolas Cage

#Moving #Anime #Castles

I don't find the same things funny that many other people seem to find funny. I don't really respond to sex jokes and things like that. Some of my friends look at me and go, "Come on, Nic, that was my best joke. Why aren't you laughing?" I go, "I really don't know why I'm not laughing. I'm sort of out of sync with it." So I'd have to find something that was really about weird human behavior for me to laugh.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Sex #Laughing #People

In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger wherever that may have come from. As I got older, it became or is coming more from a place of wanting to use the craft to help others in some way, to hold a mirror up to the situations that we're going through, to actually be more cautious about the way that I use the power of film and to see if there's anything that I can do in the performances that will resonate in the public a similar string that's on people's minds and is on my mind. That way we have that relationship.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Passion #Helping Others #Mirrors

More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Healing #Entertainment #Helpful

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Character #Thinking #Attractive

I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Country #Mean #Thinking

I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Reading #Character #Thinking

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Ducks #Challenges #Sitting

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Fall #Thinking #Good Movie

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Character #Trying #Flaws

All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Labels #Levels

I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking #Rocks #Careers

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Answers #Levels #Opinion

People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Children #Real #Believe

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Children #World #Way

I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Want #Pool #Margarita

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Independent #Adventure #Thinking

I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Hate #Cities #New Orleans

God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Father #Decision #Literature

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Taste #Want #Eclectic

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Jerk #Admire

I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking #Violence #Reason

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Reflection #Blood #Mirrors

I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Character #Dark #Dramatic

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking #Way #Cameras

Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Imagination #Way #Fiction

Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?
-- Nicolas Cage

#Art #Lying #What If

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Easter #Civilization #Islands

One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Getting Older #Limits

Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking #People #Wigs

The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Character #Boys #America

The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
-- Nicolas Cage

#Orange #Watches #Fantasia

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Jobs #Work #Two

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking #Might #Los Angeles

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Thinking #Winning #Way

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Awards #Matter

I do enjoy animated movies.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Enjoy #Animated

I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of Bringing Out the Dead and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Fall #Past #Ideas

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Crazy #Character #Nuts

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.
-- Nicolas Cage

#Character #Perfect #Humanity