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. - Nicolas Cage
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. - Nicolas Cage
All movies on some level can aspire to be more than just whatever the label is of the movie. - Nicolas Cage
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. - Nicolas Cage
I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time. - Nicolas Cage
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way. - Nicolas Cage
I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is. - Nicolas Cage
I think I've become more relaxed throughout my career. I don't feel the need to jump up and down and make a big noise to get people to pay attention to me. I don't need to do punk rock gestures or eat a cockroach or do something weird to say I exist. - Nicolas Cage
I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear. - Nicolas Cage
I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing. - Nicolas Cage
I see myself as a student. I would never call myself a master or a maestro. If you take the path of the student, that means that you have to try a little bit of everything in the hopes that you're going to learn something or strike some kind of new note or new sound or new expression in the process. I'm not going for grades. I'm going for an education. That means I'm going to continue experimenting and trying new things to try to evolve and learn. - Nicolas Cage
I like to work with young people because young people haven't had their dreams kicked out of them yet. They're full of confidence and imagination and vision and when they score, that all get's empowered. - Nicolas Cage
I have a love/ hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship. - Nicolas Cage
I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies. - Nicolas Cage
I guess it would fall into the stalker category more or less. I was being stalked by a mime - silent but maybe deadly. Somehow, this mime would appear on the set of Bringing Out the Dead and start doing strange things. I have no idea how it got past security. Finally, the producers took some action and I haven't seen the mime since. But it was definitely unsettling. - Nicolas Cage
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