Nicolas Cage quotes

“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.'”

— Nicolas Cage

“I came out of independent film, that's my roots.”

— 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

“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

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

— 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 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

“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

“Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.”

— Nicolas Cage

“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

“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.”

— 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

“Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.”

— 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

“I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'”

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

“One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'”

— 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

“I do enjoy animated movies.”

— 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

“I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.”

— Nicolas Cage

“I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16.”

— Nicolas Cage

“I would like to find a way to embrace what Led Zeppelin did, in filmmaking.”

— Nicolas Cage

“I'm very impressed with 'Drive.'”

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

— Nicolas Cage

“One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.”

— 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

“You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.”

— Nicolas Cage

“Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity.”

— Nicolas Cage