Nicolas Cage Quotes

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

Every time I see a good play or watch a good movie, I have the same feeling I had as a child of wanting to be that person on stage or wanting to run through the forest with a big dress on.

I think some cases are different than others, but all of the child actors that I have encountered, as well as myself, are real kids. I mean we do all the things that kids do. We're normal. We just like to do different things. We like to act and make people feel happy or sad, but we're 'real' people.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.

I think that most actors attempt to keep in touch with the child.

I like being able to play make believe as my job. I think I played make-believe growing up a little too long - probably to an inappropriate age. I played make-believe until I was, like, 13 and probably should have been doing something else. But other than that, it's fun to be able to have to learn about different people.

When you're old enough to write a book for children, by then you'll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you're an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

For an actor to remain a child is rather important. It's a childlike, dreamy thing, acting, if you think about it. It's the sort of thing children fantasise about, playing cowboys and Indians in the street. I think that acting is just a highly refined development of that.

All children are natural actors, and I'm still a kid. If you grow up completely, you can never be an actor.

I love kids; I think they are fun and funny.

I took my play very seriously, and I got way, way lost in my play world.

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all my cousins, my brother, and my best friends in it. I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. It was like make-believe to me.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I was always very creative. I was always into acting and dancing when I was younger.

I always love writing about children.

It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.

I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing.

The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.