Nicolas Cage’s Best Acting Advice
Inspirational quotes by Nicolas Cage
(Arranged by Carmichael Phillips)
“Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, powerful objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So, the idea is not to act but to just be.”
“Do you have the emotional capacity, the imagination, the life experience to inform a role so that it doesn’t feel like you’re really acting? It feels like you’re being”
“I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn’t even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.”
“My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.”
“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.”
“Film acting is one of the only industries where you’re criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it’s considered a quality and something to behold.”
“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. Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.”
“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. You can’t make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what’s honest for you.”
“Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.”
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