Quotes by Nicolas Cage

“My father was always getting excited about something. Its genetically inside me somewhere.”

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

“One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. Thats why I think it is important to stay passionate.”

“Dont lose the best thing in your life just because you are not sure.”

“I dont like it when people on the street say smile or cheer up. Its a real cheap line. Im feeling good. Im feeling real grateful for everything. Its a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, theyre wrong.”

“Its a family thats loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.”

“I was always shocked when I went to the doctors office and they did my X-ray and didnt find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.”

“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.”

“Shock is still fun. I wont ever shut the door on it.”

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 Im applying myself in the best way that I can. I dont think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.

Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Ill speak for myself, but theres 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.

Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesnt matter. Theyre cool.

Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I dont like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. Its just not for me.

I use technology for communication, but I dont have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but Im fine with it.

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

I think that Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Riders face on it as a tree.

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.

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.