384 Quotes by Nicolas Cage

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

I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another – they get fascinated by magic tricks.

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don’t want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus – a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.

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.

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.

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

If you’re really special, meaning you’re doing something unique and original, it could scare people.

Just because you’re a man doesn’t mean that you can’t raise your kid. I think that families should stay together, but if you are a single father, don’t give up no matter what they say.

I came out of independent film, that’s my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.