Nicolas Cage Quotes

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.

~ Nicolas Cage

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.

~ Nicolas Cage

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

~ Nicolas Cage

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.

~ Nicolas Cage

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.

~ Nicolas Cage

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.

~ 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 I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.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'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

~ 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

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.

~ Nicolas Cage

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

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.

~ Nicolas Cage

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

~ 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

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

~ Nicolas Cage

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

~ 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 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.

~ Nicolas Cage

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

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

~ Nicolas Cage

I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.

~ Nicolas Cage

I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

~ Nicolas Cage

I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.

~ Nicolas Cage

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

~ Nicolas Cage

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.

~ 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

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

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.

~ Nicolas Cage

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.

~ 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

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 think I jump around more when I'm alone.

~ 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