Nicolas Cage Quotes

I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions?

People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case.

People started saying, 'Oh you know, he's quicker than he looks', and I'm like, 'What does that mean? Do I look slow, or I'm not really sure what that means.

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.

Sometimes with the Palins, it's exactly what it looks like.

Fame is a series of misunderstandings surrounding a name.

Many people think I'm a television personality. I never have been! Just someone who acts it.

I've never been a model; that's a misconception about me, and I don't know where it came from.

People misinterpret what I say all the time: They think I'm being offensive, when really, I'm only being opinionated.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

I think for such a long time people had this misconception of who I was and what I was about.

I'm surprised sometimes at how some of my actions are misinterpreted.

I think one of the major misconceptions about me is that I live my life the way people think I lead my life, with hot and cold drinks running everywhere and a party all the time. They think of my life in terms of certain excesses that don't really exist. Things are actually fairly simple.

I like being misunderstood.

If you hear the question wrong, you will answer wrong.

Who hears wrong, replies wrong.

What fame does is there is an illusion of familiarity that is cast into the world. So it's about negotiating with that illusion because, oftentimes, you encounter people who have encountered you, but you haven't encountered them. It's a little weird to find your footing.

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

People misunderstand who I truly am. Truly who I am. If I go somewhere, people just think I'm a party boy 24/7.

Anyone who thinks my life is cupcakes is all wrong.

We have to realize that when we talk in front of other people about things only we can understand, those people will not be able to avoid getting wrong impressions.

I understand the difference between perception and reality.

I think people thought we were sort of right-wing or something, which we certainly are not. I think they got the wrong idea from the videos, that we were some kind of neo-fascist band. I heard a lot of that.