Nicolas Cage quotes
Born
January 7, 1964, Long Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation
Actor.
Nicolas Cage is an American actor.
Movies
8MM (1999)
Adaptation (2002)
Con Air (1997)
Face/Off (1997)
Kick-Ass (2010)
The Rock (1996)
There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
– Nicolas Cage
I’m up for anything that will get me to the truth of a performance.
– Nicolas Cage
I believe that there’s a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There’s no reason to be rude about it.
– 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
I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.
– Nicolas Cage
Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
– Nicolas Cage
One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.
– Nicolas Cage
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
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
Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.
– Nicolas Cage
Hollywood didn’t know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
– Nicolas Cage
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock ‘n’ roll sensibility.
– Nicolas Cage
Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I’m actively anti-celebrity.
– Nicolas Cage
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
You can’t make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what’s honest for you.
– Nicolas Cage
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
I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They’re the reason I got into movies.
– Nicolas Cage