Nicolas Cage Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.”

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

“I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.”

“I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.”

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

“When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety.”

“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.”

“My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.”

“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.”

“I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood.”