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You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.
— Nicolas Cage
Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
— Nicolas Cage
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.
— Nicolas Cage
I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.
— Nicolas Cage
My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.
— Nicolas Cage
Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.
— Nicolas Cage
I'm very impressed with 'Drive.'
— Nicolas Cage
I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.
— Nicolas Cage
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
— Nicolas Cage
I do enjoy animated movies.
— Nicolas Cage
If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.
— Nicolas Cage
Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.
— Nicolas Cage
Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.
— Nicolas Cage
Everything we do impacts someone else's life.
— Nicolas Cage
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.
— Nicolas Cage
I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.
— Nicolas Cage
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
— Nicolas Cage
I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.
— Nicolas Cage
I put a mustache and some eyebrows on, and I looked just like Nicolas Cage ... We have the same amazingly handsome good looks.
— Marilyn Manson
I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.
— Nicolas Cage
Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.
— 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 think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.
— Nicolas Cage
I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes
which is what I always try to do in every movie
then I feel like I'm doing my job. — Nicolas Cage
which is what I always try to do in every movie
then I feel like I'm doing my job. — Nicolas Cage
Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
— Nicolas Cage
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.
— 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
I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
— 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
All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie.
— Nicolas Cage
I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from.
— Nicolas Cage
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.
— Nicolas Cage
I love England - it's no secret.
— Nicolas Cage
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.
— Nicolas Cage
I'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
— Nicolas Cage
I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.
— Nicolas Cage
I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not.
— Nicolas Cage
I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.
— Nicolas Cage
One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
— Nicolas Cage
The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
— Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
— Deyth Banger
All of my characters have a glint of madness.
— Nicolas Cage
When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.
— 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
One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for me. I like being in Hong Kong.
— Nicolas Cage
I never say never, but I haven't been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.
— Nicolas Cage
I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.
— Nicolas Cage
I do like to move and get physical in my movies.
— Nicolas Cage
I'm a seeker. I'm very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.
— Nicolas Cage
One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.
— Nicolas Cage
I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.
— Nicolas Cage
I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.
— Nicolas Cage
My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
— Nicolas Cage
We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.
— Nicolas Cage
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.
— Nicolas Cage
I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.
— Nicolas Cage
I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.
— Nicolas Cage
With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard
— Nicolas Cage
I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
— Nicolas Cage
I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.
— Nicolas Cage
Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
— Nicolas Cage
I think I jump around more when I'm alone.
— Nicolas Cage
I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.
— Nicolas Cage
Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.
— Nicolas Cage
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.
— Nicolas Cage
I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16.
— Nicolas Cage
I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.
— Nicolas Cage
I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.
— 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
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.
— Nicolas Cage
Nobody wants to watch perfection.
— Nicolas Cage
Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they?
— 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 care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.
— Nicolas Cage
It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.
— Nicolas Cage
I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.
— Nicolas Cage
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
— Nicolas Cage
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.
— Nicolas Cage
I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.
— Nicolas Cage