Nicolas Cage Quotes

I get very involved in my roles. I want people to think it's all really happening. If I'm in it, I'm in it.

I love a challenge and when a new centre-back comes in it makes you raise your game. You have to show more, you have to be more consistent.

I don't know... I think I'm quite extreme... When I act, I have to immerse myself into the character... otherwise I can't act... In my private life it's the same... I think.

So far, the thing I seem to have been rewarded for in film is leaving myself behind and transforming myself into other people.

The more people they can give us upfront the harder we play.

I'm the kind of person who if I was playing the role of someone who got shot, I'd probably want to get shot so I knew what it felt like.

The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.

To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.

I'm challenged by people like Russell Crowe and Sean Penn who come in with such incredible discipline and power.

My father would go to work and try to survive every day just to get home to my mother so they could be at each other's side. That's what I want.

I really believe in the characters I play.

You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.

Acting, taken to the highest level, requires a fierce, total focus of your time and energy at the cost of just about everything else.

Tempers flare at times. That's what good teams do: they react to things and go out there and leave it all on the field.

When you play for a team like Chelsea you will have to fight for your place.

Being able to disappear into every film that I do really works in my favor.

My profession is to change myself according to my role and I work hard on it.

If you play for Manchester United, there is always someone out there getting ready to take your jersey. It is up to you to fight and make sure you keep it.

I worked very hard playing Arjun, and I was consumed by the character.

What I need to do is establish myself as Oliver Burke and not as the new Gareth Bale. To do that I need to work hard in La Liga.

We're all playing a role. You're playing a role at home, you're playing a role at work, you're playing a role to survive.

The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it just took it all, and I think that was what was so energizing about it and unreplicable.

I believed in making it look real. I was probably hard to work with because I wanted it to make real, and I knew how to wrestle.

You have to try and do everything to show your best qualities; otherwise, you will not be here anymore.

Play is always a fantasy, but once you get into the frame, it is quite real, and everything you do is real. You put acres and acres of real movement and real action and real belief in it.