Nicolas Cage Quotes

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

Playing, Demon, Acid

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

Important, Passion, Stop

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
Nicolas Cage

Rock, Wanted, Image

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

Madness, Characters

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

Medical, Find, Blood

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

Alone, Around, Jump

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

Between, Actor, Line

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

Good, Actor, Rules

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, Different

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.
Nicolas Cage

Movies, Happy, Fun

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

Life, Energy, Acting

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

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

Teenager, Anarchist, Thrive

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.
Nicolas Cage

Father, Changed, Fatherhood

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
Nicolas Cage

Family, Rebel, Rebels

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

Father, Getting, Excited

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.
Nicolas Cage

Feeling, Fire, Problem

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.
Nicolas Cage

Work, Best, Film

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
Nicolas Cage

Age, Power, Character

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

Great, Children, Giving

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

Home, Crazy, Hour

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
Nicolas Cage

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

Change, Movies, Powerful

I do enjoy animated movies.
Nicolas Cage

Movies, Enjoy, Animated

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.
Nicolas Cage

Movies, Move, Physical

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Biography

Type: Actor

Born: January 7, 1964

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