Nicolas Cage Quotes

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• The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.'
• When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.
• You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.
• Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
• 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…
• I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but…
• As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural…
• Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in…
• 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.
• 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…
• I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
• All of my characters have a glint of madness.
• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
• I think I jump around more when I'm alone.
• 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…
• I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
• 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.
• 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.
• Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.
• I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left…

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