Nicolas Cage Quotes

Actor Born: January 7, 1964

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 I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.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

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

Great, Story, Snake, Begin, Seems, Every

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

Evil, Healing, Look, Medicine, You, Two

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

Madness, Characters

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

Conflict, Think, People, Perfection

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, Lizard, Acid

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

Responsibility, Power, People, World

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

Life, Love, Fish, Birds, Animals, Whales

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, Think, People, Sometimes, Wig, Am

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

Truth, Art, Lie, You, Said, Want

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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, Think, Face, Christmas

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, Acting, You, Working Hard, Film

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

Child, Fly, People, Friends, Me, Rage

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

Home, Book, Beach, Good, Me, Long

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

Green, Medical, Doctor, Color, Find

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, Think, Chance, My Life

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

Beautiful, Good, Forest, Me, Experiences

I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck. Nicolas Cage

Work, People, Language, Speech, Stuck

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, Motorcycle, Me, Fast

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, You, New, Strive, Actor

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

America, American, Feel, My Own, Country

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

Life, Someone, Everything, Else, Impacts

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

Myself, Good, I Am, Society, People, Me

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

Myself, Humor, Darkness, Speak, You

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, Interesting, Look, Feel, Stop

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

Character, Age, Man, Power, Book, Name

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