Nicolas Cage quotes - page 2

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. (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.
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I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.
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Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.
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The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.
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I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.
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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.
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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.
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
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Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters.
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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)
How do you rebel in a family of rebels?
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Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.
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I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.
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Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.
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Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.
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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.
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I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.
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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.
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I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.
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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. (Nicolas Cage)
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.
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People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.
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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.
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I do like to move and get physical in my movies.
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