Nicolas Cage Quotes

I grow beyond my family's limitations and live for myself. It is my turn now.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.

Literature led me to freedom, not the other way round.

I just love the idea of going into a room and creating something by myself.

It was very important to me that I be my own person. That's why I chose show business.

More having to do whatever anybody said you had to do. I couldn't really do anything on my own. But as I got older and then came to America and then Grace became my name, it somehow freed me. All of a sudden, I can be this other person.

Learning to live with not meeting other people's expectations has been extremely freeing and is the only gift I wish to pass on to any future offspring.

You're not free in life until you're free of wanting other people's approval.

I love photography - I fell in love with photography, I think, because it was my own thing, it wasn't something I needed other people's permission to do. So, it was really freeing for me actually to be able to not be a famous person and just to take pictures.

I've always found myself to be most free and creatively open when I'm on my own.

When a woman starts to disentangle herself from patriarchy, ultimately she is abandoned to her own self.

The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

No one can give you freedom but you.

I've always dressed myself, even when I was younger. My parents didn't pick out my clothes or anything. They let me do that, which I think is an important thing because it allows for kids to experiment and figure out what they like, even at a young age.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

My ultimate goal is to do whatever I want, whenever I want to do it. And that keeps changing. I didn't want to host my own show until I wrote for someone else's.

I think that the very earliest influence was a horror of having to work in a bank or an office, a desire for a free and creative life.

Once I got to an age where I was old enough to make my own decisions, I quit everything and did what I actually wanted to do, which was start a band.

My father is a marvelous mentor, and if you're going to have a mentor, the ones that work best let you make your own mistakes. You're ready to do your own thing and just at that moment of being unbridled, if somebody's trying to manage you too tightly, it's going to be tough - particularly if that person's got the same last name.

Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

For a moment, off balance, was I annoyed? Anger is always fear, I thought, and fear is always fear of loss. Would I lose myself if he made those choices? It took a second to settle down: I'd lose nothing. They'd be his wishes, not mine, and he's free to live as he wants. The loss would come if I dared force him, tried to live for him and me as well. There'd be disaster worse than life on a bar stool.

One evening, when I was yet in my nurse's arms, I wanted to touch the tea urn, which was boiling merrily ... My nurse would have taken me away from the urn, but my mother said "Let him touch it." So I touched it - and that was my first lesson in the meaning of liberty.