Quotes By Nicolas Cage

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

All of my characters have a glint of madness.

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.

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.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

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

How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

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.

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

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.