Nicolas Cage - biography

“Hollywood didn’t know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing.  I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.”

“I try to do as many stunts as they’ll let me do.  I think it’s important for an audience to feel that the actor’s really doing it.”

“There’s a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.”

“It’s a family that’s loaded with grudges and passion.  We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know.  Killers, even.”

“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.”

“My father was always getting excited about something.  It’s genetically inside me somewhere.”

“As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.”

“I am not a demon.  I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther.  I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.”

“I think I jump around more when I’m alone.”

“I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type.  A kind of rock ‘n’ roll sensibility.”

“I was always shocked when I went to the doctor’s office and they did my X-ray and didn’t find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.”

“I’m sad about this, but we shouldn’t have been married in the first place.”

“Passion is very important to me.  If you stop enjoying things, you’ve got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios.”

“Shock is still fun.  I won’t ever shut the door on it.”

Nicolas Cage has appeared in the following films:
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Valley Girl (1983)
Rumble Fish (1983)
Racing with the Moon (1984)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Birdy (1984)
The Boy in Blue (1986)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Raising Arizona (1987)
Moonstruck (1987)
Never on Tuesday (1988)
Vampire’s Kiss (1988)
Tempo di uccidere (1989)
Fire Birds (1990)
Wild at Heart (1990)
Zandalee (1991)
Red Rock West (1992)
Honeymoon in Vegas (1992)
Amos & Andrew (1993)
Deadfall (1993)
Guarding Tess (1994)
It Could Happen to You (1994)
Trapped in Paradise (1994)
Kiss of Death (1995)
Leaving Las Vegas (1995)
The Rock (1996)
Con Air (1997)
Face/Off (1997)
City of Angels (1998)
Snake Eyes (1998)
8MM (1999)
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
The Family Man (2000)
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (2001)
Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)
Windtalkers (2002)
Sonny (2002)
Adaptation. (2002)
Matchstick Men (2003)
National Treasure (2004)
Lord of War (2005)
The Weather Man (2005)
The Ant Bully (2006)
World Trade Center (2006)
The Wicker Man (2006)
Ghost Rider (2007)
Grindhouse (2007)
Next (2007)
National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Knowing (2009)
G-Force (2009)
Kick-Ass (2009)
Astro Boy (2009)
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010)
Riot (2009)
Amarillo Slim (2009)
Electric God (2009)
Bad Lieutenant (2009)
Season of the Witch (2010)
The Dance (2010)
Justice (2011)
Trespass (2011)
Drive Angry (2011)