Nicolas Cage Quotes

When you're doing what you love, it's not exhausting at all, actually. It's completely empowering and exhilarating.

I am very fortunate to be doing something I completely love, so it is certainly not hard to get motivated. Watching people sing along and put their hands in the air is a very powerful thing. I'm 63, but I don't feel it. I feel like I'm in my 40s. I enjoy life.

I don't think anyone does anything from happiness. Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.

No matter what you do, you should enjoy it. You should really find passion in it.

If you're making something you're passionate about, it's not going to feel like work.

I think if you don't enjoy something, it's not sustainable.

I've only done what I've really wanted to burn up energy on. If you can't wake up in the morning and look forward to what you're going to do in the evening - and twice on a Wednesday and a Saturday - then it's not worth doing.

I learned that you have to fall in love with what you are doing and then you will enjoy it.

I learned from my parents that you have to get pleasure out of what you're doing, or don't do it.

I thought I was depressed because I wasn't a writer/director. I moved into a space where I'm a writer/director, my movie is a hit at Sundance, I have a wonderful, loving boyfriend, and wow, I have financial stability. Why can't I get out of bed still?

The only way to be successful in what you do is to love what you do.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

When you're an artist, there's always a moment in your life when you think you're not inspired and instead of doing things and instead of travel and instead of falling in love, you're just depressed, so you don't move, so you don't change. So you're not inspired.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

You know, why at the end of your life should you assemble thousands of pages of 'Why am I so sad, why am I so depressed?' Instead, assemble thousands of pages of why you're so content.

And my only rule being if when I wake in the morning I'm looking forward to the things that I have to do that day, then I'm on the right track.

I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it.

There are times in my life when I haven't been happy. Sometimes it's not even physical, it's something else. The key is identifying why you're unhappy and doing whatever you can to fix it in a healthy way.

Every movie I do, I always use things that have happened in my life. Funny moments, anything. If it just sticks out I'll write it down and use that, too, because it has to come out of you. But no one can work when they're depressed. I don't think I'd physically be able to do it if I were depressed.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.