Nicolas Cage Quotes

The only one who can beat me is me.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

I think I have a good head on my shoulders.

I'm grounded, I can say that. I can say that. I am, and it's great. I don't know where it comes from. But I've always been like that.

I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.

I'm here in the present, and I want to make sure I don't stumble on my own feet.

I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

I always try and do my best and put out the best and find the best in me, as well. But I'm not thinking about it beforehand.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal.

I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others. It's getting ahead of yourself.

I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.

Man shall find his anchorage in self-recognition.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work.

I knuckle down with my demons, and with my weaknesses.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.