Nicolas Cage Quotes

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  • 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.

    "Nicolas Cage Interview - KNOWING". Press conference, collider.com. March 18, 2009.
  • 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?

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

  • I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

    "Nicolas Cage On ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance,’ Almost Starring In ‘Dumb and Dumber’ And Why He Is Led Zeppelin" by Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.
  • It's kind of a unique concept, but it's totally real, isn't it? ... I mean, these paramedics put themselves in incredibly stressful situations, are killing themselves to save our lives and they're not really regarded or appreciated.

  • I didn't play the Ghost Rider in the first movie. That was a stuntman. In this film, the Ghost Rider feels much more alive because I did put some thought into how he should walk and into how he should move. I was so into the character, in fact, that I would paint my face with white and black makeup to look like a skull. And I put on blacked-out contact lenses, so I almost looked like an Afro-New Orleanian voodoo icon by the name of Baron Samedi. Oh man, I would walk around the set without saying a word to anybody, and I could see the fear in my co-stars' and co-directors' eyes.

    Moving  
    Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    "Knowing" Press conference, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2009.
  • 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.'

    Mother   Moving   Heart  
  • Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

  • 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 Interview - NATIONAL TREASURE: Book of Secrets". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 19, 2007.
  • I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

  • 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.

    Screen Junkies Interview, www.screenjunkies.com.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    "Nicholas Cage talks National Treasure!". Press conference, movieweb.com. November 16, 2004.
  • I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.

  • 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 Criticizes Hollywood's Lack of Opportunities for Male Asian Actors" by Patrick Brzeski, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 22, 2013.
  • 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.

    "Berlin Interview: Nicolas Cage Explains Why ‘Wicker Man’ Is Misunderstood, His Career Choices & More". Interview with Jessica Kiang, www.indiewire.com. February 20, 2013.
  • When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

  • I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

    "Nicolas Cage Interview BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. November 17, 2009.
  • 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.

    "Knowing" Press conference, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2009.
  • 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.

  • Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.

  • One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

  • 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 Gets Deadly in Bangkok Dangerous". Conference call, movieweb.com. September 09, 2008.
  • You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

  • 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.

    "National Treasure: Book of Secrets - Nicolas Cage interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.
  • All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.

    "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.
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