I dont like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. Its a real cheap line. Im feeling good. Im feeling real grateful for everything. Its a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, theyre wrong. – Nicolas Cage
Im an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. Hes 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 dont want to just do independent movies and I dont want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent. – Nicolas Cage
Im 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 was always shocked when I went to the doctors office and they did my X-ray and didnt find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. – Nicolas Cage
If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didnt have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. – Nicolas Cage
I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and thats really, really crazy but I did it. – Nicolas Cage
Its a family thats loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. – Nicolas Cage
Its amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood. – 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 peoples minds. Thats pretty powerful stuff when you consider that. – Nicolas Cage
I think I jump around more when Im alone. – Nicolas Cage
I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do. – 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 care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think. – Nicolas Cage
I do enjoy animated movies. – 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 do like to move and get physical in my movies. – 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
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
How do you rebel in a family of rebels? – Nicolas Cage
