Nicolas Cage Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Criminals, Actors

  "Out There with Nicholas Cage". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 1996.

• 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

  School, Character, Eye

• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Actors, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.

  Nicolas Cage

  Acting, Energy, Way

  "'You've got to be able to break the wall'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2007.

• Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.

  Nicolas Cage

  Quality, Acting, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.

  Nicolas Cage

  Running, Character, Home

• In the beginning my energy and passion for acting came from an almost punk rock need to express a lot of anger wherever that may have come from. As I got older, it became or is coming more from a place of wanting to use the craft to help others in some way, to hold a mirror up to the situations that we're going through, to actually be more cautious about the way that I use the power of film and to see if there's anything that I can do in the performances that will resonate in the public a similar string that's on people's minds and is on my mind. That way we have that relationship.

  Nicolas Cage

  Passion, Helping Others, Mirrors

  "Q & A: Actor Nicolas Cage Looks Ahead With 'Knowing'". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 21, 2009.

• I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

  Nicolas Cage

  Mad, Scary, Acting

  "Nicholas Cage and Eva Mendes Interviewed - 'Ghost Rider'". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. February 12, 2007.

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

  Nicolas Cage

  Art, Acting, Form

  "Toronto Film Festival 2013 Q&A: Joe's Nicolas Cage". Interview with David Fear, www.timeout.com. September 9, 2013.

• 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 51 going on 52, 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

  Age, Acting, Way

  "Nicolas Cage: ‘Personal Issues Don’t Have a Place in Film Commentary’" by Eliza Berman, time.com. August 7, 2015.

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

  Nicolas Cage

  Mother, Dancer, Acting

  "Nicolas Cage Interview BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 17, 2009.

• I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.

  Nicolas Cage

  Sex, Acting, Want

• Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.

  Nicolas Cage

  Roots, Acting, World

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