Top 100 Nicolas Cage Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative.
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#3. All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.
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#4. I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.
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#5. Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.
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#10. I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.
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#14. 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.
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#15. The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
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#16. Hopefully as a result of 'The Frozen Ground,' more and more people will be aware of the horrible things that happen to ladies all over the world and give them respect. This movie is a love letter to those victims.
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#17. 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?
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#18. There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
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#19. I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16.
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#20. Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.
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#21. I think I jump around more when I'm alone.
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#22. The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.
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#23. Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.
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#24. I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.
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#25. Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.
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#26. When you're playing supernatural characters, there's an infinite number of possibilities with a character. And I also think they're wonderful and entertaining for the whole family. You don't have a high body count ...
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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.
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#29. 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.
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#30. I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile.
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#31. 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.
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#32. I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.
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#33. Every great story seems to begin with a snake.
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#34. I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.
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#35. 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.
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#36. One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.
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#37. 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.
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#38. I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.
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#39. I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
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#40. Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.
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#41. God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I'm gonna do it.
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#42. 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.
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#43. I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.
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#44. I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.
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#45. 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.
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#46. Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
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#47. I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.
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#48. Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.
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#49. Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.
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#50. I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.
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#51. I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.
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#52. Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
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#53. I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.
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#54. 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.
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#56. It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level.
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#57. 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.
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#58. My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.
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#59. Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur.' That was the first thing I said to her. 'I loved you as Morgan Le Fay.'
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#60. I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.
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#61. I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.
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#62. 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.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.
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#66. 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.
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#67. I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.
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#68. Don't lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure.
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#69. I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.
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#70. I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
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#71. Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.
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#72. If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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."
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#76. 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.
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#77. You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.
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#78. I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.
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#79. It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.
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#80. I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
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#81. I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.
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#82. 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.
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#83. We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.
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#84. Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.
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#85. 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.
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#86. I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.
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#87. 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.
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#88. It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.
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#89. I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.
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#90. 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.
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#91. And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.
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#92. My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live with me, but that's the path I chose.
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#93. When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.
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#94. 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.
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#95. Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid.
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#96. 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.
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#97. My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
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#98. I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.
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#99. Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
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#100. I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.
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