I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own. Nicolas Cage More Quotes by Nicolas Cage More Quotes From Nicolas Cage I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. Nicolas Cage margarita pool want Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. Nicolas Cage intelligent roots people I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself. Nicolas Cage new-ways want way I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country. Nicolas Cage visitors native-american country I've acted professionally since I was 16. Nicolas Cage I'm very impressed with 'Drive.' Nicolas Cage impressed I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond. Nicolas Cage vivid-memories memories firsts I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. Nicolas Cage gadgets gears technology I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. Nicolas Cage cat play looks I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together. Nicolas Cage would-be together thinking I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent. Nicolas Cage independent adventure thinking I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs. Nicolas Cage humanity perfect character I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. Nicolas Cage avant-garde fantasy fiction 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 Everything we do impacts someone else's life. Nicolas Cage impact I have dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like that. Nicolas Cage pick-me-up dog interesting Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me. Nicolas Cage changed father years I came out of independent film, that's my roots. Nicolas Cage independent film roots 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. Nicolas Cage doctors eight blood I think I jump around more when I'm alone. Nicolas Cage thinking
