#act

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture." ↗

— John Cage

#better #culture #distraction #entertainment #listen

There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#bedside #been #character #city #come

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

— Nicolas Cage

#between #fine #fine line #line #method

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

#destructive #doing #energy #life #me

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. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#being #bit #character #crazy #developed

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#book #books #cage #called #came

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

#flaws #humanity #i #needs #perfect

I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#being #brought #character #characters #could

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#arise #arose #did #far #film

Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#dark #dramatic #fractured #happen #i