Nicolas Cage (Nicolas Kim Coppola) Quotes

One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

Nicolas Cage

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• Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Interest
  • Test
  • Studies

• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined. If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Mind
  • Child
  • Passionate

• I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Children
  • Interest
  • Actress

• I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • You
  • Passionate
  • Involved

• She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Passionate
  • Sacred
  • Feminine

• I was always active, always running and working out. I was a wrestler and ran track and, out of interest, started boxing. It's always been a part of me.

  

  T. J. Thyne
  • Me
  • Working
  • Interest

• Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I'm not interested in, I can't even feign interest.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • School
  • Me
  • Interest

• If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Interest
  • Killing
  • Probably

• I went through a period of great rebellion within my family, when I was about 9 or 10. I was mad, I had no focus, had no real interest in anything, and so I started to do things that were just rebellious and stupid.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Great
  • Real
  • Family

• I'm trying to find the truth in myself. To play somebody else doesn't interest me. It's not the focus of my life. I can get through most scenes and do the acting part of it, and at best, I'm going to be mediocre.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Truth

• I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I photograph what interests me. I'm not saying anything different.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Different
  • Interest
  • Photograph

• Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Interest
  • Project
  • Encouraging

• Structure your presentation so that you appeal to the different interests of the different decision-makers involved.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Different
  • Decision
  • inspirational

• As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • People
  • Writing
  • Job

• The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced it not because they championed 'democracy' or the individual, but because they knew it would be one of several important mechanisms for empowering the federal government and unraveling constitutional republicanism.

  

  Mark Levin
  • Important
  • Democracy
  • Interest

• Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

  

  Bob Ross
  • Life
  • Long
  • Interest

• At first, I didn't focus that much on the Internet. I was more, 'I'm going to write songs,' and I'd have sung that song out in a club, pub, or a jam session or whatever 10 times before I recorded it. We live in an Internet age, and if you don't embrace it, you get left behind a bit.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Internet
  • Songs
  • Recorded

• Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts

  

  Geoffrey Perret
  • Driving
  • Beach
  • Smoking

• Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Evil
  • Always
  • Will

• I think in France, for example, we can say whatever we want about the French, but going out and dining is more about the intellectual moment to share with the people you dine with than trying to figure out what the chef did with that little piece of salmon or lobster and all that.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • Trying
  • Moment

• I've been told there's a special golden shelf, in the secret vault kept at the back of every bookstore in America, that contains the Bible, 'War and Peace,' and 'Driving Mr. Albert.'

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • America
  • Driving
  • Special

• One of the first signs of being depressed is that you lose interest in things. That's why I think it is important to stay passionate.

  

  Nicolas Cage
  • Interest
  • Passionate
  • Depress