Nicolas Cage Quotes

I want to constantly be surprising people with different roles.

I'm forever being told that I'm an odd-looking actress, so it's great playing parts where there's no vanity. You just look as rough as you possibly can!

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability.

I'm not a sex symbol. How could I be with these skinny bowlegs?

One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I hugely respect that.

I've seen other actresses refuse to be ugly. Even if the story line calls for it or the character calls for it, they just can't go there for vanity's sake, and they don't want to be perceived in an ugly way. I was like, 'Nah, I wanna go for this.'

I want to do different kind of roles that people don't want to do.

For me, it was more challenging to become Netaji, as I don't have the same physical built or look like him.

I am not afraid to experiment - sometimes going beyond what is traditionally beautiful is what makes a great picture.

I only take up roles that really appeal to me, and like to break the rules as an actress.

There was always a conscious effort on my part to do different cinema. It's taken time for the directors to accept me.

It's my chance to challenge myself to the fullest, which is one of the great joys about my job... I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best. It's more fun playing a character that requires you to look like dog s - t.

Lady Gaga is my big fashion inspiration. I look up to her a lot.

Yeah, I was expecting most of the comments about my appearance to be about me being fat, because I'm not a skinny girl by any means. But I wasn't expecting there to be that sort of wave of 'Wow - the new Chaser's hot!'

Actually, when I first started dropping weight to fight, my biggest worry was how my smaller body would look compared to the size of my massive head.

Most women I know who have been successful in business, it's because they've been willing to take on the risky challenge that other people would say, 'Oh, I'm not sure I want to do that.'

I've always tried to do things a little bit before they were being done by the mainstream. I challenge myself to do that in stand-up also, to talk about things that I'm not hearing anybody talk about onstage and in the media.

If one wants to change the way things are, one has to take risks and be part of different kinds of cinema, despite not knowing how it will be received. That's what thrills me.

I'm learning that if you put yourself out there and make fun of yourself first, it really does work. People can't really make fun of you.

I would love to just continue playing characters that break the mold. I like making interesting decisions when playing characters, so, taking something that would seem one way and then playing it a different way.

We aren't afraid to take creative risks, which is the main ingredient in our recipe for change.

As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.

Cloud Atlas' is but one of a long list of titles deemed unfilmable, by author and movie moguls alike, until it was, well, filmed.

When someone thinks of the term, 'pretty girl,' they don't typically think of someone who looks like me.

I like more the fact that I like to think out of the box. Thinking out of the box goes along with dressing out of the box and living out of the box.