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, Me, Motorcycle, Relax, Down

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

Great, Snake, Story, Begin, Seems, Every

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, Playing, Shark, Acid, Lizard

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

People, Perfection, Think, Conflict

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 I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.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 that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. Nicolas Cage

Win, Think, You, Movies, Way, Wrong

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

Look, Evil, You, Medicine, Healing, Side

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

Life, Someone, Everything, Else, Impacts

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 Am, People, Think, Sometimes, Wearing

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

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I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. Nicolas Cage

Pool, Want, Sit, Just, Around

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

Feel, Country, My Own, America, American

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, Green, Medical, Color, Blood

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

Life, Love, Fish, Birds, Animals, Whales

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

Mirror, Time, Reflection, Drink, Blood

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

I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything. Nicolas Cage

Anything, Sequels, Obligated

People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual. Nicolas Cage

Family, Children, Parents, People, Look

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

Love, Time, Sex, New, Acting, Want

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

Love, Secret, England, I Love, No Secret

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, Way, Tongue, Try, Out

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold. Nicolas Cage

Children, Tradition, Great, Giving, Them

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

Good, Science, People, Impossible, Minds

When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected. Nicolas Cage

Adventure, Doing, Air, Gone, Like, Made

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

Alone, Me, Look, Feel, Understand, Stop

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

Morning, Tree, Face, Think, Photography

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