Nicolas Cage Quotes

People make snap judgments about me that are frequently misguided.

I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

People decided that I was the frat guy, even though I've never been inside a fraternity, or the guy who beat them up at school, even though that wasn't me at all.

The critics had an image of me, and they wouldn't accept any other... I was a cartoon character. A joke.

People will always consider me a cartoon character, a bimbo. They will never give me credit.

I think it's a shame that people are so quick to put you in a box; sometimes it's as if you do one thing, and that's all you're allowed to do.

It doesn't make it any easier that people form opinions and make judgment calls and think I'm something that I'm not or do things that I don't.

A lot of the shows I have done, I'm often the only black guy and I have often had to play second or third fiddle. It isn't necessarily a bad thing if it is a strong ensemble cast. But I feel people have overlooked my abilities.

I don't know myself why directors are offering me negative roles, although I did 'Yaddein' after 'Mission Kashmir' in which I played a very positive character, but people don't remember that.

I think that I am misunderstood because people perceive me to be a certain way because I am generational. They expect me to be entitled and expect me to have things early on. I think people misconstrued that honestly.

People think, 'Oh, I don't need to worry about him,' and they underestimate me because I am a rapper.

Don't underestimate this little fat boy.

It's annoying when people go, 'I didn't know you could actually sing.'

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.

I wasn't under the impersonation you meant me.

It was a cookie, not a crack pipe.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.

You will allow that one's curiosity must be aroused when one learns that a lady is prepared to elope to escape from advances one had not the least intention of making!

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

A mutual misunderstanding.