Quotes By 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.

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

I do like to move and get physical in my movies.

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

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.

Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.

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.

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.

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.

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.

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.

I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.

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

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

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

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

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

I do enjoy animated movies.

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.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.

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.