Quotes by Nicolas Cage

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
– Nicolas Cage
Classes were always a bore to me. I wanted to learn things on my own, not by presentations.I was a loudmouth and a clown. It came as a surprise to me, later, that I could be serious and still get attention.
– Nicolas Cage
I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.
– Nicolas Cage
I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.
– 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.
– Nicolas Cage
My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.
– 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
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
Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
– Nicolas Cage
It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.
– 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
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.
– Nicolas Cage
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.
– Nicolas Cage
I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.
– Nicolas Cage
I think I jump around more when I'm alone.
– Nicolas Cage
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
– 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 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.
– Nicolas Cage
I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.
– 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 do like to move and get physical in my movies.
– Nicolas Cage
I do enjoy animated movies.
– 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
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
How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
– Nicolas Cage
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.
– Nicolas Cage
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.
– Nicolas Cage