Nicolas Cage Quotes

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Life is a risk.

For your soul's sake, invoke the agent of change called risk, which ensures that things will not be the same tomorrow as they are today. All real change requires risk.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

With innovation, there is always risk.

I don't think we've ever lived in such a dangerous time, on a range of different levels. We also live in an extremely exciting time with a multitude of opportunities for each and every one of us to engage our individual voices, to engage more effectively collectively, to tackle some of these issues that would have seemed beyond our reach just a few years ago.

I live through risk. Without risk there is no art. You should always be on the edge of a cliff about to fall down and break your neck.

You can't even stand without risking to fall.

We're at the top of the cliff and we can either fall off the edge or keep climbing.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

I've never been trained as an actress, so it's all instinct. I just let myself go into this kind of a free fall. Sometimes I feel scared, or out of my element - like everyone else knows what they're doing but me. I don't know . . . Maybe I function well with fear or I like to be faced with a challenge . . . I think I'm just a work in progress.

Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances.

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

I think it's my job to risk looking foolish. One of the things I've learned from the actors I've worked with is you don't get something for nothing. If you don't risk looking foolish, you'll never do anything special.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

What I try to do as an actor is constantly find that, find ways to risk, find opportunities to fall on my face if it's going to be worth it, and then maybe I'll surprise myself.

And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.

In life you need to take a risk.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

I'm interested when things are upside down - because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.