Quotes By Nicolas Cage

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

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.

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

The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.

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.

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

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

I do enjoy animated movies.

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.

I came out of independent film, that's my roots.

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.

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

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

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 think I jump around more when I'm alone.

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

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.

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

I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

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

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.

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.

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain.

For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

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.