Nicolas Cage Quotes

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Nicolas Cage

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 7, 1964

My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.

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I always say to myself that if I can make a movie that makes a kid smile or gives them some hope or something to get excited about, then I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.

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You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.

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I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.

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I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.

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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 jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?

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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.

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I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.

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 I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.

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I have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.

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When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

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

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Everything we do impacts someone else's life.

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I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

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Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig.

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Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?

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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.

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

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You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

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