Nicolas Cage Quotes

Actor Born: January 7, 1964

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

Car, Fire, Relax, Me, Motorcycle, Down

Every great story seems to begin with a snake. Nicolas Cage

Great, Snake, Story, Begin, Seems, Every

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

People, I Am, Think, Sometimes, Wig, Am

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

Humor, Myself, Darkness, Speak, You

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

I Am, Want, Shark, Playing, Acid, Denver

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

Christmas, Morning, Tree, Face, Think

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. Nicolas Cage

American, America, Belonging, Feel, See

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

Life, Love, Fish, Birds, Animals, Whales

All of my characters have a glint of madness. Nicolas Cage

Madness, Characters

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

Me, Think, Los Angeles, Paparazzi, Out

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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

Life, Fear, Live, Chance, My Life, Think

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. Nicolas Cage

Family, Father, Water, People, Desert

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

Nature, Me, Interesting, Always, Been

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

Time, Reflection, Mirror, Drink, Last

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. Nicolas Cage

Good, Beautiful, Me, Forest, Sacred

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. Nicolas Cage

Work, Thinking, Tongue, Way, Try, Out

Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root. Nicolas Cage

Life, World, My Life, Filmmaking, Acting

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

Communication, Technology, Cell Phone

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

People, Conflict, Perfection, Think

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

Power, Responsibility, People, World

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

Good, Home, Book, Beach, Me, Look

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

Doctor, Medical, Green, Color, Find

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

Good, Rules, New, You, Strive, Break

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

People, Child, Me, Fly, Friends, Escape

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

Quality, Working Hard, You, Acting, Hard

Everything we do impacts someone else's life. Nicolas Cage

Life, Someone, Everything, Else, Impacts

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