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Nicolas Cage Quotes

My father once said, ‘If you’re in the desert and you’re dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?’ I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic Picture Quote #1

One of the things that’s interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they’re putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I’m about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down Picture Quote #1

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 that the venom can also be healing Picture Quote #1

The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you’re at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers Picture Quote #1

There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false Picture Quote #1

There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was ‘Lord of the Rings’ and one was ‘The Matrix.’ But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn’t really take that time out Picture Quote #1

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We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it’s very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the ‘Ghost Rider’ comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn’t get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - ‘How is this possible, this duality?’ Picture Quote #1

When I’m in England, I know I’m a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that’s German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds Picture Quote #1

When you start a movie, it’s not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You’re meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety Picture Quote #1

You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can’t let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically Picture Quote #1

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People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that’s all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they’re in these circumstances and make them real to you Picture Quote #1

Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco Picture Quote #1

Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people’s minds. It’s not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract Picture Quote #1

In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it’s important to have a couple bad boys out there, too Picture Quote #1

These so called Popcorn movies, or family movies, actually provide something quite beautiful and something quite necessary, which is a family bonding experience Picture Quote #1

I love it all. I don’t want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There’s nothing wrong with that Picture Quote #1

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they’re more enigmatic, when we don’t say it’s this or that and where it raises more questions than answers Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig Picture Quote #1

I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business Picture Quote #1

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First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I don’t want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs Picture Quote #1

You can’t make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what’s honest for you Picture Quote #1

I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody’s faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism Picture Quote #1

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My father once said, ‘If you’re in the desert and you’re dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?’ I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic (Nicolas Cage Quotes) One of the things that’s interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they’re putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I’m about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down (Nicolas Cage Quotes) 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 that the venom can also be healing (Nicolas Cage Quotes) The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you’re at the center of the universe - if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers (Nicolas Cage Quotes) There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false (Nicolas Cage Quotes) There were two movies that asked me to go to Australia or New Zealand for long periods of time. One was ‘Lord of the Rings’ and one was ‘The Matrix.’ But I was actively involved at that time raising my family, and I couldn’t really take that time out (Nicolas Cage Quotes) We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it’s very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him (Nicolas Cage Quotes) 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 (Nicolas Cage Quotes) When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the ‘Ghost Rider’ comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn’t get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - ‘How is this possible, this duality?’ (Nicolas Cage Quotes) When I’m in England, I know I’m a visitor, but being a white man in England with ancestry that’s German and Italian, I have a history with the Romans and the Saxons. I feel some connection and ancestry here, as weird as that sounds (Nicolas Cage Quotes) When you start a movie, it’s not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You’re meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety (Nicolas Cage Quotes) You get dinged for wanting to do a comedy, then wanting to do a big-budget action film, and then wanting to do an indie. But you can’t let other people trying to label you get in the way of trying to do something artistically (Nicolas Cage Quotes) People often say that you should never work with child actors. I think that’s all wrong. Children have not had the imagination kicked out of them by life experience and adulthood. So, they still are very much alive with that kind of magical thinking which enables an actor to believe they’re in these circumstances and make them real to you (Nicolas Cage Quotes) Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco (Nicolas Cage Quotes) Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people’s minds. It’s not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it’s important to have a couple bad boys out there, too. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) These so called Popcorn movies, or family movies, actually provide something quite beautiful and something quite necessary, which is a family bonding experience. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) I love it all. I don’t want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) 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. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There’s nothing wrong with that. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they’re more enigmatic, when we don’t say it’s this or that and where it raises more questions than answers. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) 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. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business (Nicolas Cage Quotes) First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) You can’t make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what’s honest for you. (Nicolas Cage Quotes) I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody’s faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism. (Nicolas Cage Quotes)

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