Nicolas Cage (Nicolas Kim Coppola) Quotes

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

Nicolas Cage

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• In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.

  

  Oliver North
  • Bad
  • Action
  • Best

• You can think what you like of Madonna - about her political choices and her PR - but you have to respect her courage not to let the critics stop her exploring her potential.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Political
  • Respect
  • Stop

• Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Man
  • Honest
  • Blues

• If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Success
  • You
  • Critics

• It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Fighting
  • Choices

• I listened to a lot of Joni Mitchell in high school. She was sort of an inspiration to me. I think she's a great lyricist, and she makes interesting choices.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Choices
  • Inspiration
  • Joni Mitchell

• There's something about being in a house with an audience, and having that immediate feedback. I started acting because of that energy; it's what feeds me on stage and informs my choices.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • House
  • Energy
  • Choices

• Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.

  

  Jake Sullivan
  • People
  • Study
  • Choices

• I've always been a material-based actor. That's what I've done, the choices I've made - like a heat-seeking missile.

  

  Lindsay Duncan
  • Done
  • Choices

• I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Increase your consumption of healthful fats like extra virgin olive oil, avocado, grass-fed beef, wild fish, coconut oil, nuts and seeds. At the same time, keep in mind that modified fats like hydrogenated or trans fats are the worst choices for brain health.

  

  David Perlmutter
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Health

• Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Choices

• If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don't regret, even about bad choices, is that there's always something you can get out of it.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Bad
  • Choices
  • Regret

• One of the things I like best about 'Biggest Loser' is being around people who are trying to make the right choices. When you feel defeated about your weight and your health, like there's no hope, and you still make the choice to fight for it, to make the change happen no matter what people say or think, that's inspiring to me.

  

  Alison Sweeney
  • People
  • Trying
  • Hope

• I like repressed characters. That gives me a lot of freedom to make a lot of different choices through subtleties.

  

  Jeremy Renner
  • Different
  • Freedom
  • Choices

• In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Life
  • Business
  • Responsibility

• You will do things in private and sing in private and make choices in private that you wouldn't make if you were observed.

  

  Kristian Bush Sugarland
  • Choices

• Here's a fact: I absolutely understand the humiliation of being stopped for no reason other than driving while black.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Black
  • Driving

• In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.

  

  Jane Gardam

• I have to think about the possible ramifications of an early retirement.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • Retirement
  • Ramifications

• The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

  

  William Osler
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Vision

• You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

  

  Nicolas Cage
  • Choices
  • Honest
  • Critics