Nicolas Cage Quotes

Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. ~ Nicolas Cage

It's always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

I remember once imagining what my life would be like, what I'd be like. I pictured having all these qualities, strong positive qualities that people could pick up on from across the room. But as time passed, few became qualities that I actually had. And all the possibilities I faced, and the sorts of people I could be, all of them got reduced every year to fewer and fewer until finally they got reduced to one - to who I am. And that's who I am. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected. ~ Nicolas Cage

I think I jump around more when I'm alone. ~ Nicolas Cage

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

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

I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable. ~ Nicolas Cage

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold. ~ Nicolas Cage

I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. ~ Nicolas Cage

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect. ~ Nicolas Cage

Actually, when I was young, I believe I met Nicolas Cage. I think I was probably eight, and I remember seeing him at somebody's house - it was an event and he happened to be there. People would ask me if I was his son, because I looked like him at that point, so I do remember feeling some connection and just wanting to say, like, 'Papa!' ~ Simon Helberg

If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious. ~ Nicolas Cage

All of my characters have a glint of madness. ~ Nicolas Cage

Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character. ~ Nicolas Cage

I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans. ~ Nicolas Cage

Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport. ~ Nicolas Cage

I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television. ~ Nicolas Cage

A 5'5", 182-pound, 43-year-old man wearing khaki shorts and a UCLA sweatshirt runs to Nicolas Cage in a manner he will spend the rest of the night describing to his slightly bored but equally boring date as "ambushing." No one else is on the street and Nicolas Cage is unable to avoid the man, who wants a picture with his "brand new Droid." As the man, who actually seems to be vibrating and hovering in an almost hummingbird-like way, adjusts his stance for the third attempt at a picture his crotch lightly brushes Nicolas Cage's upper thigh, causing his face to shift from "bemused resignation" to, strangely, "serene bliss," for what will become the man's inaugural Facebook profile picture. ~ Megan Boyle

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere. ~ Nicolas Cage

I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about. ~ Nicolas Cage

I've always had a soft spot for comic books. ~ Nicolas Cage

Nobody can make a movie as exciting as Jerry Bruckheimer. When it's a Jerry Bruckheimer movie that it's going to have lots of chrome and gloss, it's going to be sexy, and it's going to be big and fun. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride. ~ Nicolas Cage

I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.' ~ Nicolas Cage

When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety. ~ Nicolas Cage

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day. ~ Nicolas Cage

You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught. ~ Nicolas Cage

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11? ~ Nicolas Cage

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

I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. ~ Nicolas Cage

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first. ~ Joel Coen

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

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

I love England - it's no secret. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. ~ Nicolas Cage

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver. ~ Nicolas Cage

I'm very impressed with 'Drive.' ~ Nicolas Cage

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

Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

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

Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they? ~ Nicolas Cage

I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I'm in my fifthies, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance. ~ Nicolas Cage

I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films. ~ Nicolas Cage

I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. ~ Nicolas Cage

I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

I just try to keep it fresh. I try to keep it interesting. The truth is my roots are independently spirited dramas that are small, and I will always go back to that well, because that's where I broke out of. But I'm going to keep doing as many different movies as I possibly can. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

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

With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard ~ Nicolas Cage

Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small. ~ Nicolas Cage

I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. ~ Nicolas Cage

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything. ~ Nicolas Cage

I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal - like Francis Bacon's screaming pope, or Edvard Munch with [The Scream]. ~ Nicolas Cage

It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

Feel like real time unfolding. It's going to smack of reality and feel as real as it can ... The buildings themselves aren't (shown) ... The movie's about what happened amongst this handful of men when the buildings came down. ~ Nicolas Cage

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history. ~ Nicolas Cage

I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies. ~ Nicolas Cage

You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the rise who was stopped short or dragged down by personal flaws and then became just a media storm. I see this as a thing that continues to happen in America and I wanted to say something about that. ~ Nicolas Cage

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it. ~ Nicolas Cage

I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. ~ Nicolas Cage

I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument. ~ Nicolas Cage

How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else. ~ Nicolas Cage

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it. ~ Nicolas Cage

First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director. ~ Nicolas Cage

Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold. ~ Nicolas Cage

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families. ~ Nicolas Cage

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience. ~ Nicolas Cage

The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life. ~ Nicolas Cage

You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can't let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically. ~ Nicolas Cage

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian. ~ Nicolas Cage

I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field. ~ Nicolas Cage

I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss. ~ Nicolas Cage

Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid. ~ Nicolas Cage

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say. ~ Nicolas Cage

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

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare ... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck. ~ Nicolas Cage