Nicolas Cage movie quotes

They say "Evil prevails when good men fail to act". What they ought to say is "Evil prevails".
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“My job takes me to a lot of places. It's got its down sides: I sleep alone. I eat alone. I'm used to it, though. I'd like to meet someone. But it's tough when you live out of a suitcase. I go where I'm told... do what I'm told. I shouldn't complain. The work is steady. The money's good. But it's not for everyone.”

Nicolas Cage - Joe

“- Tom Wall: Frank, what are you doing back there?
- Frank Pierce: I'm sick, Tom. I need a cure. Vitamin B cocktail, followed by an amp of glucose and a drop of adrenaline. Not as good as beer, but it's all I got.”
Tom Sizemore - Tom Wolls
Nicolas Cage - Frank Pierce

“- The president: Even if something like that really did exist, why do you think I would actually just give it to you?
- Ben Gates: Because it will probably lead us to the discovery of the greatest Native-American treasure of all time; a huge piece of culture lost. You can give that history back to its descendants. And because you're the...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bruce Greenwood - The president
Nicolas Cage - Ben Gates

“I realised that my training was useful in less than ten percent of the calls, and saving lives was rarer than that. After a while, I grew to understand that my role was less about saving lives than about bearing witness. I was a grief mop. It was enough that I simply turned up.”
Nicolas Cage - Frank Pierce

“Fast food. Things that people would rather throw out than finish. It's easy, it tastes all right, but it doesn't really provide you any nourishment. I'm fast food.”
Nicolas Cage - David Spritz

“People don't throw things at me any more. Maybe because I carry a bow around.”
Nicolas Cage - David Spritz

“- Charlie: You see it?
- Mike Lawford: See what Charlie?
- Charlie: At the window.”
Jack Fulton - Charlie
Nicolas Cage - Mike Lawford

“I know we could both go on with our separate lives and we'd be just fine, but I've seen what we can be together, and I choose us.”
Nicolas Cage - Jack Campbell

“Isn't this religious, ah yes. The eternal battle between good and evil, saint and sinners... but you're still not having any fun!”
Nicolas Cage - Castor Troy

“- Tom Welles: Wouldn't want to embarrass yourself in front of your fellow perverts.
- Max California: That's right. I might get drummed out of the Pornographer's Union. Where would I be then?”

Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles
Joaquin Phoenix - Tom Welles

“When the nightmare becomes real, you don't hesitate. You don't think, you just run. Anyone in the way goes down. It's pretty simple. You are the target now. Leave the country, or you are going to die.”

Nicolas Cage - Joe

“- Frank Mercer: I'd just like to, you know, take a girl out somewhere nice once in a while.
- Roy Waller: You have to pay extra for that?”
Sam Rockwell - Frank Mercer
Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller

“- Dino Velvet: You trust me to take your money, but not your picture?
- Tom Welles: Those are two different kinds of trust.”
Peter Stormare - Dino Velvet
Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles

“There are two types of tragedies in life. One is not getting what you want, the other is getting it.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“Since the end of the Cold War, the Kalashnikov has become the Russian people's greatest export. After that comes vodka, caviar, and suicidal novelists. One thing is for sure, no one was lining up to buy their cars.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“- Julia Costello: Look, I'm sorry.
- Rick Santoro: Who gives a shit if you're sorry?
- Julia Costello: What are you mad at me for?
- Rick Santoro: Because I didn't have to know! You decided to have this problem, not me! My world would've gone on turning just fine, but now, either way I look, I have to do something that I don't wanna do. Do you I...” (continue)(continue reading)
Carla Gugino - Julia Costello
Nicolas Cage - Rick Santoro

“- Evan Lake: You have a disease of the blood. My disease is in the brain.
- Muhammad Banir: What sort of disease?
- Evan Lake: I'm forgetting things.
- Muhammad Banir: There is a lot to forget.”
Nicolas Cage - Evan Lake
Alexander Karim - Muhammad Banir

“I wish I had two dicks.”
Nicolas Cage - David Spritz

“Saving someone's life is like falling in love. The best drug in the world. For days, sometimes weeks afterwards, you walk the streets, making infinite whatever you see. Once, for a few weeks, I couldn't feel the earth - everything I touched became lighter. Horns played in my shoes. Flowers fell from my pockets. You wonder if you've become...” (continue)(continue reading)
Nicolas Cage - Frank Pierce

“I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.”
Nicolas Cage

“- Max California: Can I interest you in a battery-operated vagina?
- Tom Welles: No, thank you.
- Max California: Are you sure? I'd hate for you to be in one of those everyday situations that calls for a battery-operated vagina and not have one.”
Joaquin Phoenix - Max California
Nicolas Cage - Tom Welles

“People recognize me sometimes. Some are dicks. I should cool out a little, I guess. I mean, I'm not just this two-dimensional guy they recognize. I do have a relationship to them. I let them know what they have to deal with. I guess that's why they think they know me. But they don't, really.”
Nicolas Cage - David Spritz

“I'm not ver good at being a father, all right? I barely get by just being me.”
Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller

“People like you who try to help have been torturing me, in the full sense of the word, since I was three years old. What did they call it? Oh, yeah. Observed play therapy. Featuring, the marathon 36-hour, can-you-guess-the-next-flash-card game.”
Nicolas Cage - Cris Johnson