Nicolas Cage quotes

quotes - Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

“Every great story seems to begin with a snake.”

— Nicolas Cage

quotes - I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

“I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.”

— Nicolas Cage

quotes - 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.

“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

quotes - Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

“Everything we do impacts someone else's life.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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?'”

— Nicolas Cage

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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

“I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

“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. To me, he's a great actor.”

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

“I think I jump around more when I'm alone.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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.”

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

“Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?”

— Nicolas Cage

“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?”

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage