{"author":"Nicolas Cage","author_id":"Nicolas+Cage","total_quotes":34,"quotes":[{"text":"At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["character","power","man "],"id":17884,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["good","beach","book "],"id":18873,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["award","matter","price "],"id":34883,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["change","powerful","people "],"id":36131,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"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.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["rules","actor","you "],"id":44407,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["technology","good","gear "],"id":47353,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["life","children","thinking "],"id":60183,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"The end of the world is on people's minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["responsibility","world","end "],"id":68435,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["color","doctor","green "],"id":82356,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"},{"text":"If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.","author":"Nicolas Cage","tags":["strong","numbers","kind "],"id":101006,"author_id":"Nicolas+Cage"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":34,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}