Top 120 Nicolas Cage Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “It’s important to keep the eccentric spirit alive, because when that goes, the work will go.”

— Nicolas Cage

52. “Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they’d think I was some nepotism-oriented kid.”

— Nicolas Cage

53. “I do enjoy animated movies.”

— Nicolas Cage

54. “I’m a seeker. I’m very much a believer in science. But I do think there are times when science and mysticism intersect.”

— Nicolas Cage

55. “You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment – and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.”

— Nicolas Cage

56. “With my name in cement, I feel actualised. – On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard.”

— Nicolas Cage

57. “I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes – which is what I always try to do in every movie – then I feel like I’m doing my job.”

— Nicolas Cage

58. “I try to make two movies a year. To me, that’s not too much. On top of that, I like to work.”

— Nicolas Cage

59. “I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age – he was only 24 – but I’m in my fifthies, so there’s only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance.”

— Nicolas Cage

60. “Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.”

— Nicolas Cage

61. “We’ve become so glorified in the movie-star system that it’s become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we’re circus clowns.”

— Nicolas Cage

62. “Idris Elba is a grand actor. He’s very larger than life; he’s bigger than life.”

— Nicolas Cage

63. “God bless the popcorn film. Especially movies where you can take the kids, because I remember looking forward to seeing these movies with my parents, and if I can give that back, I’m gonna do it.”

— Nicolas Cage

64. “It’s always exciting when you can go into a mode where you can be both spontaneous and choreographed. Sort of in control and out of control at the same time.”

— Nicolas Cage

65. “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

66. “I’ve always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.”

— Nicolas Cage

67. “Nobody can make a movie as exciting as Jerry Bruckheimer. When it’s a Jerry Bruckheimer movie that it’s going to have lots of chrome and gloss, it’s going to be sexy, and it’s going to be big and fun.”

— Nicolas Cage

68. “I like movies where you feel like you’re going into another world, and no matter how many times you watch it, you’re gonna see something new in that world. That level of detail really inspires me.”

— Nicolas Cage

69. “If you get a chance, whenever you’re traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don’t buy your comics online ’cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids.”

— Nicolas Cage

70. “When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like ‘Con Air’ and ‘Gone in 60 Seconds,’ not what would be expected.”

— Nicolas Cage

71. “I really think it’s important that my beliefs don’t impinge upon what you get from the movie. It’s your opinion that matters and it’s far more interesting than mine.”

— Nicolas Cage

72. “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.”

— Nicolas Cage

73. “The best characters are the ones that somehow manage to be both attractive and repulsive at the same time. If you do that, you’re at the center of the universe – if you can find characters who are more ambiguous and can raise more questions than answers.”

— Nicolas Cage

74. “I’ve been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it’s true that I enjoy filmmaking and I’m an enthusiast.”

— Nicolas Cage

75. “Actors work with their look. I come from the Lon Chaney Sr. school of acting. I’ll wear wigs, I’ll wear nose pieces, I’ll wear green contact lenses in my eyes. I’ll do whatever I need to do to create a character.”

— Nicolas Cage

76. “I’m always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it’s important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.”

— Nicolas Cage

77. “The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn’t have the fire to create from.”

— Nicolas Cage

78. “I was thinking about being more global in my work, which means trying more foreign countries and working with foreign filmmakers, hoping they would give me a new take on my work, a new point of view, reinvent me in some way.”

— Nicolas Cage

79. “When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn’t go where you want it to go. It’s a lot of pressure.”

— Nicolas Cage

80. “I’m not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.”

— Nicolas Cage

81. “I wasn’t any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn’t cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself.”

— Nicolas Cage

82. “One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits.”

— Nicolas Cage

83. “When you’re playing supernatural characters, there’s an infinite number of possibilities with a character. And I also think they’re wonderful and entertaining for the whole family. You don’t have a high body count...”

— Nicolas Cage

84. “I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.”

— Nicolas Cage

85. “Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don’t really understand why they can’t wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together.”

— Nicolas Cage

86. “I actually enjoy working with green screen, because I can imagine all that stuff happening, and I really cut my teeth on a movie I made called “Adaptation” where I had to imagine four-page dialogue scenes with my twin brother, who was nothing more than a tennis ball and a gas stand.”

— Nicolas Cage

87. “I got a little tired of movies where I had to shoot people. I got to thinking about the power of film and what that power is. The power is in fact that it really can change people’s minds.”

— Nicolas Cage

88. “My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.”

— Nicolas Cage

89. “I think on some level, all of us have a little bit of belief in the possibility of different energies and forces and things like that. Otherwise, we wouldn’t be afraid of them. Or there wouldn’t be so many movies about them.”

— Nicolas Cage

90. “Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.”

— Nicolas Cage

91. “I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business.”

— Nicolas Cage

92. “First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.”

— Nicolas Cage

93. “I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile.”

— Nicolas Cage

94. “Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn’t matter. They’re cool.”

— Nicolas Cage

95. “More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist – anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It’s the best form of entertainment, and it’s still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.”

— Nicolas Cage

96. “I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.”

— Nicolas Cage

97. “I’m very impressed with ‘Drive.’”

— Nicolas Cage

98. “My best takes are my first two takes.”

— Nicolas Cage

99. “I never say never, but I haven’t been given the quality of script to compel me to go on television.”

— Nicolas Cage

100. “One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.”

— Nicolas Cage