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Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

Nicolas Cage Quotes

Actor Born: January 7, 1964

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

Great, Snake, Story

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

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

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

Conflict, Perfection, People

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 I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.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

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

Friends, Child, People

I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about. Nicolas Cage

Good, Focus, Heart

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

Life, Someone, Everything

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, World

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

Passion, Me, Important

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

Age, Character, Power

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

Life, Love, Fish

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself. Nicolas Cage

Myself, Want, Find

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

Healing, Evil, Medicine

I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me. Nicolas Cage

Music, Me, Real

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

Medical, Color, Doctor

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. Nicolas Cage

Myself, Rock, Kind

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

Memories, Movies, Bond

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

Children, Great, Giving

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, Good, Beach

I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. Nicolas Cage

Reading, Childhood, I Am

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

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, Movies

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

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. Nicolas Cage

Ugly, Play, Look

I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk. Nicolas Cage

Know, You, Admire

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