110+ Nicolas Cage Quotes (Dramatic, Intense And Versatile)

Nicolas Cage is an American actor, director, and producer. He has appeared in over 60 films throughout his career, including major blockbusters such as National Treasure, Face/Off, and Con Air. He won an Academy Award for his performance in Leaving Las Vegas in 1995.

Top 10 Nicolas Cage Quotes

1. 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.
2. Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
3. I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
4. 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.
5. Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.
6. There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
7. Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid.
8. If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.
9. 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.
10. I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.

Nicolas Cage Short Quotes

• Nobody ever thinks clearly at the airport.
• With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard
• As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
• It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.
• My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
• I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.
• I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
• I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.
• I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.
• I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.

Nicolas Cage Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Nicolas Cage

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. — Nicolas Cage

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? — Nicolas Cage

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. — Nicolas Cage

I have a love-hate relationship with New Orleans, which is the strongest sort of relationship. I've had some extraordinary, beautiful, poetic experiences in this city and I've had some terrible experiences in this city. I'm drawn to New Orleans, in many ways feel I grew up in New Orleans, even though I'm from the West. — Nicolas Cage

One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up. — Nicolas Cage

Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco. — Nicolas Cage

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns. — Nicolas Cage

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away. — Nicolas Cage

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

Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with. — Nicolas Cage

I certainly would never overstep my bounds and make suggestions to a director. As an actor I'm trying to fit to the best of my abilities within the director's vision, and trying to find some happy rapport where we can both bring something to it that's fresh. Usually I've been lucky in working with directors who have trusted my instincts. — Nicolas Cage

I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me. — Nicolas Cage

If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important. — Nicolas Cage

I think that movies can help guide us through those experiences [the problems that are happening in our daily lives, the stresses between countries, the economy and global warming]. I think all art tries to grapple with, redefine, come to terms with, express what's happening now when it's working. You can be entertained, but you can also be stimulated to think about things. — Nicolas Cage

Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I'll wear wigs, I'll wear nose pieces, I'll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I'll do whatever I need to do to create a character. — Nicolas Cage

I really would like to be able to face all my superstitions that may have existed and walk under the ladder and do everything you're not supposed to do. — Nicolas Cage

I wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself. — Nicolas Cage

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character. — Nicolas Cage

I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies. — Nicolas Cage

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things. — Nicolas Cage

I think on some level, all of us have a little bit of belief in the possibility of different energies and forces and things like that. Otherwise, we wouldn't be afraid of them. Or there wouldn't be so many movies about them. — Nicolas Cage

I love England - it's no secret. — Nicolas Cage

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. — Nicolas Cage

First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director. — Nicolas Cage

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out. — Nicolas Cage

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time. — Nicolas Cage

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate. — Nicolas Cage

I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called "Adaptation" where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand. — Nicolas Cage

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen. — Nicolas Cage

I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job. — Nicolas Cage

To begin... To begin... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. Okay, so I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana-nut. That's a good muffin. — Nicolas Cage

I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile. — Nicolas Cage

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

Feel like real time unfolding. It's going to smack of reality and feel as real as it can ... The buildings themselves aren't (shown) ... The movie's about what happened amongst this handful of men when the buildings came down. — Nicolas Cage

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

Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say. — Nicolas Cage

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

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers. — Nicolas Cage

All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie. — Nicolas Cage

It's always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time. — Nicolas Cage

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity. — Nicolas Cage

The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look forward to sharing them with their parents, a ritual if you will, where they get to spend time together and the kids are smiling. — Nicolas Cage

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen. — Nicolas Cage

Nobody wants to watch perfection. — Nicolas Cage

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. — Nicolas Cage

That was one of the reasons why I wanted to tell the story of Colin Price. I saw someone in this fictionalized political character that was trying to do something important for his city. He meant well, but then you see that the human flaws had really derailed his past. It seems to be happening more and more in our country. I wanted to hold a mirror up to that. — Nicolas Cage

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

More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment. — Nicolas Cage

If you get a chance, whenever you're traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don't buy your comics online 'cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids. — Nicolas Cage

When you're playing supernatural characters, there's an infinite number of possibilities with a character. And I also think they're wonderful and entertaining for the whole family. You don't have a high body count. — Nicolas Cage

I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered. — Nicolas Cage

I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect. — Nicolas Cage

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that. — Nicolas Cage

I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field. — Nicolas Cage

I like being at that place where you can either fall or stand. That's where I think you really have a shot at doing something truthful. — Nicolas Cage

I really think it's important that my beliefs don't impinge upon what you get from the movie. It's your opinion that matters and it's far more interesting than mine. — Nicolas Cage

My father always used to say to me, it doesn’t matter what the profession is, but if they’re the best in their field, it will always be fascinating to watch. — Nicolas Cage

I just try to keep it fresh. I try to keep it interesting. The truth is my roots are independently spirited dramas that are small, and I will always go back to that well, because that's where I broke out of. But I'm going to keep doing as many different movies as I possibly can. — Nicolas Cage

I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that intensity. For some reason, it's what I respond to in terms of my taste and of my instincts. — Nicolas Cage

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all. — Nicolas Cage

Nobody can make a movie as exciting as Jerry Bruckheimer. When it's a Jerry Bruckheimer movie that it's going to have lots of chrome and gloss, it's going to be sexy, and it's going to be big and fun. — Nicolas Cage

I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of 'Bringing Out the Dead' and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling. — Nicolas Cage

I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast. — Nicolas Cage

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40. — Nicolas Cage

I went to New Orleans for the first time for Wild at Heart, and I kept going back to make more movies there. I've become very close to the city and part of me does feel like a New Orleanian. — Nicolas Cage

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it. — Nicolas Cage

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not. — Nicolas Cage

Don't lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure. — Nicolas Cage

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it. — Nicolas Cage

People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that's all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they're in these circumstances and make them real to you. — Nicolas Cage

I always say, if you think it’s over the top then tell me where the top is first. I don’t think anyone can. But if you can tell me where the top is then I’ll tell you whether or not I’m over it. — Nicolas Cage

With the advent of this kind of TMZ culture, it sadly seems to have infiltrated the vanguard of film commentary. I see these reviews sometimes where I think, well, you have a right to say whatever you want about my work, and I will listen whether it's good or bad and see if there's something that I might work with, but personal issues don't have a place in film commentary. — Nicolas Cage

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks. — Nicolas Cage

I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I’m 51 going on 52, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance. — Nicolas Cage

When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions. — Nicolas Cage

I was very happy with Vampire's Kiss, which in my opinion was almost like an independent laboratory to start realizing some of my more expressionistic dreams with film performance. Then using what I had learned in Vampire's Kiss and putting it into a very big action movie in the form of Face/Off with John Woo. If you look at those two movies back to back, you can see where I stole from my performance in Vampire's Kiss. — Nicolas Cage

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. — Nicolas Cage

I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola. — Nicolas Cage

Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history. — Nicolas Cage

Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the rise who was stopped short or dragged down by personal flaws and then became just a media storm. I see this as a thing that continues to happen in America and I wanted to say something about that. — Nicolas Cage

I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films. — Nicolas Cage

When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal. — Nicolas Cage

Well, Amber [Heard] is still raising her eyebrow at me because I said that I've been 180 miles per hour on the 405 freeway on a motorcycle and she doesn't believe me but it's a true story. I did it coming home from work at 3 in the morning on another movie I made about cars called Gone in 60 Seconds. 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

With every action oriented or adventure film, there's going to be a moment when every actor becomes a stuntman and every stuntman becomes an actor. You try to do as much of it as you can, but inevitably the studio wants you to finish the movie. So you've got to slow down and you're really got to defer to your team to make sure you do. — Nicolas Cage

I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well. — Nicolas Cage

Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age. I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it's one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself. — Nicolas Cage

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring. — Nicolas Cage

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

Life Lessons by Nicolas Cage

1. Life is unpredictable and we should be prepared for anything. Nicolas Cage has experienced both great success and failure in his career, teaching us to stay humble and resilient in the face of adversity.
2. We should never give up on our dreams. Despite the ups and downs, Nicolas Cage has stayed true to his passion and has continued to pursue his acting career.
3. We should always strive to be the best version of ourselves. Nicolas Cage has demonstrated that hard work and dedication can lead to success, inspiring us to always strive for greatness.