Nicolas Cage
I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Smile
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?Collection: Truth
It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.Collection: Amazing
I think I jump around more when I'm alone.Collection: Alone
You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed.Collection: Teacher
I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.Collection: Technology
I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.Collection: Movies
I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor.Collection: Humor
Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.Collection: Easter
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.Collection: Music
I use technology for communication, but I don't have a Blackberry or an iPhone. I use an outdated cell phone, but I'm fine with it.Collection: Communication
If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.Collection: Intelligence
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.Collection: Car
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.Collection: Medical
I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.Collection: Chance
I have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship.Collection: Relationship
I think that if you go about making movies to win Oscars, you're really going about it the wrong way.Collection: Movies
Every great story seems to begin with a snake.Collection: Great
It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home.Collection: Home
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 what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility.
Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me.
The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.
I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.
My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic.
You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.
Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.
I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles.
As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.
Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.
As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.
I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.
I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.
I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?
Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
All of my characters have a glint of madness.
There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
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.
I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
I've always had a soft spot for comic books.
I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.
I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.
I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.
I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.
Everything we do impacts someone else's life.
I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.
Nobody wants to watch perfection.