Nicolas Cage Acting Quotations

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen. It's a different kind of acting for me . . . It's like silent-film acting and radio acting, at the same time.

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.

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 in my fifthies, 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.