Nicolas Cage Quotes

• "As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious."
• "Classes were always a bore to me. I wanted to learn things on my own, not by presentations.I was a loudmouth and a clown. It came as a surprise to me, later, that I could be serious and still get attention."
• "Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild."
• "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."
• "I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression."
• "I get stimulated by creative people, and by meeting talented people. I like putting things together, and seeing how they work."
• "I think I jump around more when I'm alone."
• "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."
• "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."
• "I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place."
• "It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."
• "My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere."
• "One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate."
• "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."
• "Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."
• "There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."
• "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."