Nicolas Quotes & Sayings

It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even. — Nicolas Cage

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Our memory and the movies keep movie stars alive for us, and Tony Curtis is still a star. — Nicolas Roeg

Without economic concerns the fool dies from boredom. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Who is content with nothing possesses all things. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

The vibe, it's that excitement. New York, you just can't describe it. You get a similar thing from Paris and London, but it's not New York. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs. — Nicolas Cage

When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?' — Nicolas Roeg

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first. — Joel Coen

I'd compare myself to Zinedine Zidane ... a humble guy who just happened to be the best — Nicolas Anelka

Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is. — Nicolas Chamfort

I love good and pleasure, I hate evil and pain, I want to be happy and I am not mistaken in believing, that people, angels and even demons have those same inclinations. — Nicolas Malebranche

There are over 550 million firearms in worldwide circulation. That's one firearm for every twelve people on the planet. The only question is, how do we arm the other 11? — Nicolas Cage

It is among uneducated women that we may look for the most confirmed gossips. Goethe tells us there is nothing more frightful than bustling ignorance. — Nicolas Chamfort

Men of reason have endured;men of passion have lived. — Nicolas Chamfort

To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious. — Nicolas Cage

I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. — 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

I like to work with young people because young people haven't had their dreams kicked out of them yet. They're full of confidence and imagination and vision and when they score, that all get's empowered. — Nicolas Cage

We've got Chinese, white, black and mixed; but remember that our colors are cheap, for after many years of contracts and tricks nobody's purity runs very deep. — Nicolas Guillen

At the end, the key thing is you've got to live with yourself. That's the real test. Everything else is fleeting. — Nicolas Berggruen

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe, but seeks refuge in a dogma. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

What made America great was her ability to transform her own dream into hope for all mankind. America did not tell the millions of men and women who came from every country in the world and who -- with their hands, their intelligence and their heart -- built the greatest nation in the world: 'Come, and everything will be given to you.' She said: 'Come, and the only limits to what you'll be able to achieve will be your own courage and your own talent. — Nicolas Sarkozy

I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day. — Nicolas Cage

I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time. — Nicolas Cage

History clearly demonstrates that governing is a task that exceeds man's ability. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains. — Nicolas Malebranche

A 5'5", 182-pound, 43-year-old man wearing khaki shorts and a UCLA sweatshirt runs to Nicolas Cage in a manner he will spend the rest of the night describing to his slightly bored but equally boring date as "ambushing." No one else is on the street and Nicolas Cage is unable to avoid the man, who wants a picture with his "brand new Droid." As the man, who actually seems to be vibrating and hovering in an almost hummingbird-like way, adjusts his stance for the third attempt at a picture his crotch lightly brushes Nicolas Cage's upper thigh, causing his face to shift from "bemused resignation" to, strangely, "serene bliss," for what will become the man's inaugural Facebook profile picture. — Megan Boyle

It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood. — Nicolas Cage

I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches. Pope Francis has come to renew the Catholic Church, and he has new air to renew the spiritual world. Now, Venezuela does not need mediation. — Nicolas Maduro

The cloud which appeared to the prophet Ezekiel carried with it winds and storms, but it was environed with a golden circle, to teach us that the storms of afflictions, which happen to God's children, are encompassed with brightness and smiling felicity. — Nicolas Caussin

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. — Nicolas Chamfort

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold. — Nicolas Cage

I am just a humble worker. Commander Chavez decided I should be president. To President Obama, we remember that young leader and of the workers of Chicago. So we have a different kind of relation. For him and John Kerry. We talked to Edward Kennedy. — Nicolas Maduro

The French people need to have all the facts so they can choose. And I won't be running away from it or hiding from it. — Nicolas Sarkozy

'Puffball' is a love story ... no, it's a life story. — Nicolas Roeg

When I went to the cinema as a boy, when I saw a war film, I thought the general was the star, and that Cary Grant was an extra. I had no idea about the structure of film, but I loved going to the cinema. — Nicolas Roeg

People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other. — Nicolas Roeg

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself. — Nicolas Cage

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together. — Nicolas Cage

I do enjoy animated movies. — Nicolas Cage

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Happy the poet who with ease can steer
From grave to gay, from lively to severe.
[Lat., Heureux qui, dans ses vers, sait d'une voix legere
Passer du grave au doux, du plaisant au severe.] — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

Yeah, my real name is Coppola. I changed it because they'd think I was some nepotism-oriented kid. — Nicolas Cage

I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less and less interesting. — Nicolas Berggruen

I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable. — Nicolas Cage

The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little. — Nicolas Chamfort

I've stopped showing actors what to actually do. I rather just talk to them about it. Then I usually play music. That's a great way to convey inner emotion, bring the power of style and acting together. That's really what it is, very good acting without talking. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Film works when a director and a star have a connection. You know, when there's something telekinetic between them, there's a partnership, it's like alter egos. It's like James Stewart and Alfred Hitchcock, or Fellini and Mastroianni. I'm not comparing, I'm just saying, if you can come into a relationship where the director and star have such a bond, it's so much easier to make a movie. — Nicolas Winding Refn

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism. — Nicolas Roeg

I think I've never really liked the idea of genre, a film that follows the rules of a genre. — Nicolas Roeg

Fear has many faces. — Nicolas Roeg

Laissez-faire is finished. The all-powerful market that always knows best is finished. — Nicolas Sarkozy

Nicolas Morganti had stalked back into her life, stamped his foot, and demanded to stay. — Michele De Winton

I groan but answer the call in a sing song voice.

"Kitty Lung, hero or terrorist, you take your pick. — Sarah Nicolas

I do tend to apply myself to projects that make me uncomfortable because usually when that happens I try to find a way of existing in the project that is more creative. — Nicolas Cage

Nowadays, teenagers are so fast and quick to see through any form of manipulation. Sitting down and just thinking of something is like watching really bad pornography. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Similar questions were posed to Allende as to me. Allende was told that he blamed everything on a conspiracy, on the economic crisis, that he blamed the high inflation that sabotaged him on the United States, and that he was frequently accusing the little lambs of Nixon and Kissinger of a coup. But everything became known later. — Nicolas Maduro

There's incredible effect in being either loved or hated, but knowing that, either way, you have penetrated the mind and have altered it; that is a very pleasurable feeling. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth. — Nicolas Chamfort

Thats the thing about memories, they can make you sad, even if they are good memories. You like thinking back to them; they're the greatest treasure we have, and yetis always makes you a little sad because something has irreversibly passed. — Nicolas Barreau

My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere. — Nicolas Cage

Youve just got to go with what you have in your pants. — Nicolas Colsaerts

I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with. — Nicolas Cage

Spending time looking for what is missing in your life is futile; if you fail to look within yourself. When we challenge everything we believe we are, we reveal that which we never knew about our own selves. — Nicolas G. Janovsky

I generally try to avoid talking about my old films - I find it difficult. — Nicolas Roeg

Youth is so exciting. It'll take over. I don't want to be swept away. I want to be with the taking-over people, right to the end. — Nicolas Roeg

It is hard to believe, but the phrase 'workshop of the world' was originally coined for Britain, which today, according to Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has 'no industry'. Having successfully launched the Industrial Revolution before other countries, Britain became such a dominant industrial power by the mid nineteenth century that it felt confident enough to completely liberalize its trade (see Thing 7). In 1860, it produced 20 per cent of world manufacturing output. In 1870, it accounted for 46 per cent of world trade in manufactured goods. The current Chinese share in world exports is only around 17 per cent (as of 2007), even though 'everything' seems to be made in China, so you can imagine the extent of British dominance then. — Ha-Joon Chang

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. — Nicolas Chamfort

I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I'm in my fifthies, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance. — Nicolas Cage

Life is a soap bubble, says Chekhov. And mine just burst. — Nicolas Barreau

In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits. — Nicolas Chamfort

Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort

How can you judge one film against another? — Nicolas Roeg

Financially, it was very successful. Which is the most important thing. That is the only way you get to make another movie. It's very simple. The market will value you. — Nicolas Winding Refn

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders. — Nicolas Sarkozy

He who disguises tyranny, protection, or even benefits under the air and name of friendship reminds me of the guilty priest who poisoned the sacramental bread. — Nicolas Chamfort

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac! — Nicolas Sarkozy

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all. — Nicolas Chamfort

I don't like it when people on the street say "smile" or "cheer up." It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong. — Nicolas Cage

As a child, I was happy without wanting to be. I mean, I never thought about whether I wanted to be happy again, I just was. — Nicolas Barreau

Nobody can make a movie as exciting as Jerry Bruckheimer. When it's a Jerry Bruckheimer movie that it's going to have lots of chrome and gloss, it's going to be sexy, and it's going to be big and fun. — Nicolas Cage

I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything. — Nicolas Roeg

Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown. — Nicolas Jaar

Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life. — Nicolas Cage

If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself. — Nicolas Cage

A civilization's memory resides in the continuity of its institutions. The revolution that interrupts a civilization's memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

Listen to this: "Professor Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the Dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel"! — J.K. Rowling

I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character. — Nicolas Cage

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery. — Nicolas Chamfort

If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood. — Nicolas Winding Refn

Many people say that government is necessary because some men cannot be trusted to look after themselves, but anarchists say that government is harmful because no men can be trusted to look after anyone else. — Nicolas Walter

My name on his lips is a symphony. How can two simple beats of basic human language engulf me so completely? We stare at each other for a mini infinity. I'm terrified of speaking and breaking the spell that's fallen over us. — Sarah Nicolas

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. — Nicolas Roeg

In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally — Nicolas Chamfort

He has willed - He wills incessantly - that the modifications of the mind and those of the body shall be reciprocal. This is the conjunction and the natural dependence of the two parts of which we are constituted. — Nicolas Malebranche