Quotes by Nicolas Cage

About Nicolas Cage:

Nicolas Kim Coppola is an American actor and producer. He has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films. In the early years of his career, Cage starred in films such as Valley Girl (1983), Racing with the Moon (1984), Birdy (1984), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986), Raising Arizona (1987), Moonstruck (1987), Vampire's Kiss (1989), Wild at Heart (1990), Honeymoon in Vegas (1992), and Red Rock West (1993).
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I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'

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You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

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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.

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

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When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.

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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 inabi...

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

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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 t...

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

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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.

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I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

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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.

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Nobody wants to watch perfection.

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

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I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.

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Just because you're a man doesn't mean that you can't raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don't give up no matter what they say.

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

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

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The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.

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I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

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Author Bio

  • NameNicolas Cage
  • Descriptionactor from the United States
  • BornJanuary 7, 1964
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Film Actor; Film Director; Film Producer; Voice Actor
  • AwardsAcademy Award For Best Actor