I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time. - Nicolas Cage
More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment. - Nicolas Cage
Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and where it raises more questions than answers. - Nicolas Cage
Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. - Nicolas Cage
Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? - Nicolas Cage
Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. - Nicolas Cage
To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. - Nicolas Cage
Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. So automatically you're getting closer to potentially divine sources of interest because it is abstract. It's one of the only ways that a film actor can express himself in the abstract and have audiences still go along for the ride. They don't contend it. They accept it, that they're going to go places that are a bit more of the imagination, a bit more out there, and that's more and more where I like to dance. - Nicolas Cage
When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure. - Nicolas Cage
Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don't really understand why they can't wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together. - Nicolas Cage
Horse riding is a perfect comparison with singing. You must know where the double fences are. - Luciano Pavarotti
I think it was very good. I would like to say it was romantic, absolutely, very difficult in 2001 to have something like that. - Luciano Pavarotti
If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them. - Luciano Pavarotti
If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice. - Luciano Pavarotti
It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera. - Luciano Pavarotti
One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating. - Luciano Pavarotti
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