Top 100 Quotes About Nicolas Cage

#1. 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.

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#2. 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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#3. 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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#4. All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

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#5. Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

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#6. 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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#7. I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

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#8. Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?

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#9. In 'Honeymoon in Vegas,' after Nicolas Cage tells his fiancee that he's given her away to pay for his gambling debts, she gets into a tizzy as if she were a 6-year-old. I couldn't believe it.

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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.

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#14. I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

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#15. 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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#16. Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

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#17. I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?

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#18. 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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#19. 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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#20. One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.

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#21. 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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#22. I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.

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#23. I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

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#24. 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.

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#25. 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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#26. I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country.

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#27. The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'

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#28. 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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#29. 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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#30. There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

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#31. 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.

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#32. 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.

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#33. There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.

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#34. My best takes are my first two takes.

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#35. 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.

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#36. I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16.

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

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#38. Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

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#39. I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.

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#40. 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.

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#41. I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

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#42. I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

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#43. 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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#44. I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.

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#45. 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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#46. 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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#47. Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

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#48. There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was 'Lord of the Rings' and one was 'The Matrix.' But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn't really take that time out.

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#49. Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.

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#50. 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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#51. Rage with Nicolas Cage is a twisted film, nicolas cage is the craziest actor ever seen!

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

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#53. Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.

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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

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#58. I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.

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#59. I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile.

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#60. Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too.

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#61. The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling.

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#62. I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.

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#63. The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

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#64. 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.

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#65. Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

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#66. 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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#67. Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

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#68. When I'm in England, I know I'm a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that's German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds.

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#69. 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.

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#70. I do enjoy animated movies.

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#71. If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

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#72. 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.

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#73. 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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#74. 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.

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#75. Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

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#76. 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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#77. 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.

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#78. I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

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#79. 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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#80. 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.

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#81. One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.

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#82. Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

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#83. I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that.

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#84. Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.

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

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#86. 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.

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#87. 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.

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#88. 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.

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#89. All of my characters have a glint of madness.

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#90. 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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#91. 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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#92. 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.

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#93. Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.

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#94. I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.

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#95. The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you're at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.

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

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#97. I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.

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#98. 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.

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#99. 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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#100. 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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