Nicolas Cage Quotes (42 Quotes)

I always knew she was great, ... but this was the first time I got to see her in the work background.

I don't like it when people on the street say ''smile'' or ''cheer up.'' It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

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

It's for Weston. Weston likes animals. I do, too. I like octopuses. I can't help it.

I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... I have great respect for the Navajo Code Talkers and their heroic acts.

One of the things I would suggest to anybody who is feeling burnt in the film business, ... They should spend one hour with Martin Scorsese and they'll be rejuvenated, because this man has so much passion and love for the craft of filmmaking that it's impossible not to have it rub off on you. It's exhilarating to be around.

This is the kind of movie that doesn't pull any punches and deals with a controversial subject, ... It is timely. There are a lot of events that have transpired in the last few years that have made people concerned about what's going on here at home and around the world. I think we're not always sure what we're getting on the news, if it's the truth or not.

Alcatraz is an unsafe place to actually make a movie in many ways because there are cliffs and rotting corroding steel pipes everywhere and old nails sticking up.

The idea that kids younger than mine are fighting guerilla wars using guns sold for profit is just mind-boggling to me. And the question is, who are the people supplying those weapons How do they sleep What kind of people are they

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.

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.

Well, it's very simple and it may sound strange, but I am Ghost Rider. It wasn't that challenging ... He's a man trying to take a negative and turn it into a positive ... Johnny Blaze has this horrible thing happened to him and he's going to take that negative and make it a positive, no matter what.

It's really important that I'm able to convey the way he thinks, the way he justifies what he does to himself. The truth is, some of the dealers really are doing some good they're helping good people fight oppression. In any case, I don't think the devil shows up with horns and pitchfork. I think the devil is a nice guy, seductive, appealing, fun to hang out with. If he wasn't, he wouldn't make friends, you know I have no illusions this is going to be mass market movie, but I think it has a lot going on, a lot to think about.

The Weather Man ... films with more serious themes get more attention.

I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

I think no matter what walk of life we're in or who we are, we all have that connection with our father because we are small in the beginning and they're big so there's this awesome regard for dad,

With my goal to make a family drama and also my artistic aspirations of doing things which are a bit edgy, I've gotten a really happy marriage in 'The Weather Man', ... Gore went outside the box and did something personal and artistic, but at the same time it hits all the right notes in terms of children that may be going through a divorce, or a husband and wife dealing with it in a way that's not Pollyanna or saccharine or B.S. I haven't made that many movies like it. I know I've never made a movie as individual as 'The Weather Man' in dealing with family issues.

Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

I really want people to know that despite the title, and despite the fact that weaponry plays a major role, this is anything but a typical action movie, ... It's a movie I hope brings some attention to what is a very serious issue for me, and one that a lot of people just aren't aware of.

I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place.

Question 2 Does he turn to the sports page first He doesn't. The word 'sports' has always given me anxiety, ... I was the guy, when they had the lineup in school, who wasn't picked. So I've got a problem with sports.

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

At the time I agreed to do 'The Weather Man,' I was going through a divorce and I was trying to figure out how I could take a negative and turn it into a positive,

I get stimulated by creative people, and by meeting talented people. I like putting things together, and seeing how they work.

feel like real time unfolding. It's going to smack of reality and feel as real as it can ... The buildings themselves aren't (shown) ... The movie's about what happened amongst this handful of men when the buildings came down.

Classes were always a bore to me. I wanted to learn things on my own, not by presentations. I was a loudmouth and a clown. It came as a surprise to me, later, that I could be serious and still get attention.

And on top of that, my dad is a professor of literature so he's very, very smart. So I was always thinking, 'How I can aspire to be him' There was this intimidating aura growing up with a university professor.

It was clear to me that he was doing Brando, ... I don't think Dean made any motions not to be honest about that. Brando was his idol.

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

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.

sold guns to every army but the Salvation Army.

It's not something you really read about or see on TV who's subsidizing these gun sales to oppressive dictators around the world. It made me interested in doing the movie, because I thought it was an important topic that might make more people aware of i

He likes Elton John songs, he's a Beatles maniac, he likes to play guitar. He's not your typical FBI agent, at least not the way it's been played in the past,

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

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.

When I received the script for 'The Weather Man,' I thought, 'Oh well, here's a parallel.' Sometimes I choose movies that help me do something positive with a negative emotion. And 'The Weather Man' was an opportunity to take this well of feeling that I had and just funnel it.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen, ... It's a different kind of acting for me . . . It's like silent-film acting and radio acting, at the same time.

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.

While the scenes depicting shootouts, romances with beautiful women and close-call escapes from a relentless Interpol agent (Ethan Hawke) will keep audiences on the edge of their seats, Cage hopes the film will make people, and governments, consider the kinds of people making money off their weaponry purchases. Knowledge is key it's power, ... You need to know what you're getting involved with.