Top 66 Nicolas Cage Quotes

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.

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the ‘Ghost Rider’ comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn’t get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening – ‘How is this possible, this duality?’

I do enjoy animated movies.

It’s amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

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.

My father was always getting excited about something. It’s genetically inside me somewhere.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

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.

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.

I don’t want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

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

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

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.

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 had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.

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.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

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.

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.’

Shock is still fun. I won’t ever shut the door on it.

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.

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

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.

I don’t want to just do independent movies and I don’t want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

I don’t drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

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.

As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.

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

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

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

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.

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.

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.

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

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.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I know what it’s like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.

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?

I think I jump around more when I’m alone.

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

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.

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.

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.

I came out of independent film, that’s my roots.

I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like ‘Spirited Away’ and ‘Howl’s Moving Castle.’

I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.

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.

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

There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

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.

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

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.

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.

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

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.

We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it’s very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father – and I want that to be open to him.

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.

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.

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.

Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I’m actively anti-celebrity.

Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there’s the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there’s the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.

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

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.

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.

I’m not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

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.