The best Quotes by Nicolas Cage

AI is a nightmare to me. It's inhumane. You can't get more inhumane than artificial intelligence.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

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 I'm applying myself in the best way that I can. I don't think that just goes for kids. I think that it goes for adults, as well, and for families.

One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.

I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

Every great story seems to begin with a snake.

Greece... the country that spent money like a rapper whose accountant is Nicolas Cage.

This is what Pascal means when he says, that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness.

Fantasies have to be unrealistic. Because the minute- the second- that you get what you want, you don't- you can't- want it anymore.

We spend our whole lives trying to stop death.
Eating, inventing, loving, praying, fighting, killing.
But what do we really know about death?
Just that nobody comes back.
But there comes a point in life - a moment - when your mind outlives its desires, its obsessions, when your habits survive your dreams, and when your losses...
Maybe death is a gift. You wonder.

The problem with dating dream girls is that they have a tendency to become real.

I don't want to be remembered at all. If I'm being remembered, it means I'm dead!

The first and most important rule of gun-running is: Never get shot with your own merchandise.

Bullets change governments far surer than votes.

They say you're a veritable phantasm. That you have slipped through the firm grasp of the law more than any other man on God's great earth. They also say you're the one who robbed the Bleufeur National Bank in P29, killing, among others, three tellers, two security guards, a retired Navy colonel, his mother, and a small boy, whose only crime was masticating a sweet cheery cherry gumball.

Each arm is equipped with an explosive device. It's a protective measure. These devices are connected to a neuro sensor, which can recognize the impulse of a man intending to strike a helpless woman. Should that impulse be detected, an alarm will sound and if unheeded, detonation will occur. Your trousers are also equipped with explosives. One at each testicle.

This is the Ghostland, my friend. The land of no escape.

Just beyond the point, where we now stand, lies a stretch of highway where evil reigns.

Chimera: "Bernice, what are we going to do?"
Bernice: "Whatever we want to do."
Nancy: "We've never been outside our house before. Are we free? Is this what it feels like?"
Bernice: "I think it feels much better than that."

My granddaughter has been lost to us. I would have her returned to me posthaste. And you, sir, I am told, are the man to do the job.

You know when something crazy happens and someone's like, "it's okay, I've seen way worse"? Everything I saw you do today is gonna be my "way worse".

We will protect you! You have the word of the most trusted institution on earth... the Catholic church!

You bring him people to eat? You're like the guy that gets the villain's Postmates.

Rebecca: "Did I watch you cut a guy with a decorative serving platter?"
Renfield: "It's all in the wrist."

Dracula: "Renfield, bring me innocent victims. I want a handful of nuns, a busload of cheerleaders."
Renfield: "And I just want a normal life again."

Dracula: "Some call me the dark one. Others, the Lord of Death. To most, I am Dracula."
Mark: "Okay, obviously we're dealing with a little bit more than just narcissism here."

California has officially announced that jaywalking is now no longer a crime. So congratulations to the Californians who like walking places. This is great news for the six of you.

New Mexico. It's another state. I mean, it's like California, just less traffic.

We all have our little faults. Mine's in California.

You know you're from Arizona when you feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.

Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter and hell spends the summer.

The people of Arizona, they've been very warm and welcoming.

Germany... a country whose idea of a bedtime story is two children being left to die in the forest, before nearly being cooked and eaten and then murdering an old woman.

Australia... home of every animal that seems like it should already be extinct.

I am nervous about the impact AI is going to have on future elections. Personalized 1:1 persuasion, combined with high-quality generated media, is going to be a powerful force.

A snake that crawled on the earth one day dreamed of soaring through the sky, though knowing it was impossible. Still, hoping beyond hope, it kept it's eye on a baby bird which it raised in its own nest, little realizing that actually the snake is prey because that bird is a hawk, ready to take to the sky.

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.