Nicolas Cage

You aren't a true internationalist until you've supplied weapons to kill your own countrymen.

— Nicolas Cage

With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard

— Nicolas Cage

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

— Nicolas Cage

Tattoos to me are the outward symbol of the inward change within my soul.

— 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'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.

— 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…

— Nicolas Cage

I've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on…

— 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…

— Nicolas Cage

I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm…

— Nicolas Cage

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best…

— Nicolas Cage

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and…

— 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

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table.…

— Nicolas Cage

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…

— Nicolas Cage

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk…

— Nicolas Cage

I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your…

— Nicolas Cage

I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to…

— Nicolas Cage

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as…

— Nicolas Cage

And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to…

— Nicolas Cage

If you get a chance, whenever you're traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don't buy your comics…

— Nicolas Cage

Well, Amber [Heard] is still raising her eyebrow at me because I said that I've been 180 miles per hour on the…

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

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

— 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

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

— Nicolas Cage

I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.

— Nicolas Cage

Remakes are always a challenge and they always are sitting ducks.

— Nicolas Cage

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.

— Nicolas Cage

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

— Nicolas Cage

I think a good movie is a good movie whether that falls into a genre or not.

— Nicolas Cage

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Nicolas Cage

I would say that I'm 98 percent skeptical, but the other 2 percent [is] open for the possibility of things.

— Nicolas Cage

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

— Nicolas Cage

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.

— Nicolas Cage

It's important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.

— Nicolas Cage

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

— Nicolas Cage