Nicolas Cage movie quotes

“- Johnny-23: Do you know what I am?
- Cameron Poe: Ugly all day?”
Danny Trejo - Johnny-23
Nicolas Cage - Cameron Poe

“- Roy Waller: You're ready for this.
- Angela: I was born ready.
- Roy Waller: Glad I missed that day.”

Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller
Alison Lohman - Angela

“- Stanley Goodspeed: How'd you do it?
- John Patrick Mason: Nurtured the hope that there was hope. That one day I'd breathe free air. Perhaps meet my daughter. Modest hopes, but they kept a man alive.”
Nicolas Cage - Stanley Goodspeed
Sir Sean Connery - John Patrick Mason

“The truth is, almost anyone can take out a politician. That's not the hard part. The hard part is getting away with it.”
Nicolas Cage - Joe

“Maybe it's my brain chemistry. All my problems and anxiety can be reduced to a chemical imbalance or some kind of misfiring synapses. I need to get help for that. But I'll still be ugly though. Nothing's gonna change that.”
Nicolas Cage - Charlie Kaufman

“I have been running away from violence my whole life. I should have been running towards it. It's in our nature. Earliest human skeletons had spearheads in their heads and ribcages.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“If there's something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.”
Nicolas Cage - Benjamin Franklin Gates

“You cannot be near the newly dead without feeling it.”
Nicolas Cage - Frank Pierce

“You can fight a lot of enemies and survive. But if you fight your biology, you will always lose.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“- Tom Wall: Look up, Frank. Full moon. The blood's gonna run tonight. I can feel it. Our mission: to save lives.
- Frank Pierce: Our mission is coffee, Tom. A shot of the bull, Puerto Rican espresso.”
Tom Sizemore - Tom Wolls
Nicolas Cage - Frank Pierce

“Control, vision, determination. These are the three fundamental components of the new generation race car driver. Speed is a byproduct. Going fast. But remember: The car is you, you are the car. Okay? Let's ride!”
Nicolas Cage - Memphis Raines

“The first and most important rule of gun-running is to never get shot with your own merchandise.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“- Jimmy Kilmartin: Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right?
- Little Junior Brown: Whatever don't...?
- Jimmy Kilmartin: Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
- Little Junior Brown: Whatever don't kill you makes... I like that.”
David Caruso - Jimmy Kilmartin
Nicolas Cage - Little Junior Brown

“- Seth: Hello Maggie! It's nice to see you again.
- Dr. Maggie Rice: It's weird to see you again.
- Seth: Weird is nice.”
Nicolas Cage - Seth

“- Garland 'The Marietta Mangler' Greene: One girl... I drove through three states wearing her head as a hat.
- Cameron Poe: It's my daughter's birthday today. So please feel free not to share everything with me.”
Steve Buscemi - Garland 'The Marietta Mangler' Greene
Nicolas Cage - Cameron Poe

“- Jack Singer: We're gonna jump out of one plane?
- Roy Bacon: At 3,000 feet.
- Jack Singer: And these chutes are fool-proof, right?
- Roy Bacon: Well, as the King always said there's nothing in this world fool-proof other than a Coupe de Ville... and hookers!”
Nicolas Cage - Jack Singer
Burton Gilliam - Roy Bacon, Elvis Impersonator

“There's nothing better for an arms dealer than a combination of disgruntled soldiers and warehouses full of weapons.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“Political assassination wasn't in the contract. So, there were two ways to go: refuse the job and walk away now. Or, do the job and walk away rich.”
Nicolas Cage - Joe

It's not called "gun-running" for nothing. You've gotta be fast on your feet. Some revolutions blow over before the guns even get there. There's nothing more expensive for an arms dealer than peace.
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“Why didn't I go in? I'm such a chicken. I'm such an idiot. I should have kissed her. I've blown it. I should just go and knock on her door and just kiss her. It would be romantic. It would be something we could someday tell our kids. I'm gonna do that right now.”

Nicolas Cage - Charlie Kaufman

“- Angela: You seem to be doing alright by it!
- Roy Waller: I'm not. Believe me. It's no fun doing what I do. A lot of times it's stealing from people who don't deserve it. Old people. Fat people. Lonely.”

Alison Lohman - Angela
Nicolas Cage - Roy Waller

“Selling a gun for the first time is a lot like having sex for the first time. You're excited but you don't really know what the hell you're doing. And some way, one way or another, it's over too fast.”
Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“- Charlie Kaufman: There are no rules, Donald. And anyone who says there are is just, you know...
- Donald Kaufman: Not rules, principles. McKee writes that a rule says you must do it this way. A principle says, this works and has through all remembered time.”
Nicolas Cage - Charlie Kaufman
Nicolas Cage - Donald Kaufman

“Always resort to your native tongue in times of anger. And in times of ecstasy.”

Nicolas Cage - Yuri Orlov

“- Roxanne Simpson: Johnny Blaze, thank you for talking to us before your big jump. No one has ever attempted such a distance before: Three hundred feet from field goal to field goal. What's going through your mind, right now?
- Johnny Blaze: You look really good.”
Eva Mendes - Roxanne Simpson
Nicolas Cage - Johnny Blaze