#or

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. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#break #criminal #good #good actor #like

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#pain #solve #storytelling #use #way

As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#apply #aware #became #best #beyond

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you. ↗

— William Feather

#certainly #difficult #here #inspiration #intelligent

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#america #carry #cigarettes #circles #more

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself. ↗

— William Ellery Channing

#condition #first #himself #his #labor

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. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#audience #doing #feel #i #i think

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. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#along #celebrate #celebration #christopher #enormous

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work. ↗

— William Feather

#energy #found #idea #make #man

I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience. ↗

— Nicolas Cage

#get #i #make #out #row