Nicolas Cage movie quotes

View Quote I had a flair for languages. But I soon discovered that what talks best is dollars, dinars, drachmas, rubles, rupis and pounds **** sterling.

View Quote You know who's going to inherit the earth? Arms dealers. Because everyone else is too busy killing each other. That's the secret to survival. Never go to war, especially with yourself.

View Quote Funny how you always resort to your native tongue in times of anger. And in times of ecstasy.

View Quote (To Carla) I really believe that anyone who's even thinking of having a child in this world is coldly considering an act of cruelty.

View Quote I'm a chemical superfreak actually, but, I still need a gun.

View Quote Listen, I'm just a bio-chemist. Most of the time I work in a glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo. A beige one. But what I'm dealing with here, is one of the deadliest substances the earth has ever known so whaddaya say you cut me some friggin' slack?

View Quote [voiceover] I should have gone in. I'm such a chicken. I should have kissed her. I should go knock on her door and just kiss her. It would be romantic. It would be something we'd tell our kids about someday. I'm going to do that right now. [drives away]

View Quote What the hell do you need binoculars for?!

View Quote To begin... To begin... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. So I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana nut. That's a good muffin.

View Quote [delighted] I got shot. Isn't that **** up?

View Quote McKee says we all have to realize we write in a genre, so we must find originality within that genre. Did you know that there hasn't been a new genre since Fellini invented the mockumentary...? My genre's thriller, what's yours?

View Quote You are what you love, not what loves you, I decided that a long time ago.

View Quote Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.

View Quote That doctor in the operating room. She stared right at me.

View Quote Cassiel: If you knew what was going to happen, would you still have done it? Was it worth it?
Seth: I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.

View Quote Can you tell me if you had to make a choice... if you were forced to choose... between imagining her out ther somewhere living a good life... being happy... bu you don't know... you never find out... or the worst being true... her being gone... but you know... you finally know what's happened to her.

View Quote I'll never get tired of hurting you, Eddie!

View Quote If someone never saw or sold a snuff film, they shouldn't give a damn what I ask about it, if they have they got a right to be nervous.

View Quote Ben: [asking Riley] How fast can we get to London from here?
Riley: I don't know. [refers to the French policeman standing there] Why don't you ask your new best friend?
French Policeman: [indicating his partner] He's calling you a cab.
Ben: Merci beaucoup.

View Quote Ben: Because you're the President of the United States sir. Whether by innate character, or the oath you took to defend the Constitution, or the weight of history that falls upon you, I believe you to be the honorable man, sir.
President: Gates. People don't believe in that stuff anymore.
Ben: They want to believe it.

View Quote Ben: Hack in to the London Police database and get a copy of the picture from that traffic cam.
Riley: Okey-dokey!
Ben: Can't do it?
Riley: I can do it, I just don't like you to ASSUME that I can do it.
Abigail: [laughs sarcastically and rolls eyes] Why thank you, Riley.

View Quote [to Lula] The way your head works is God's own private mystery.

View Quote [to Lula] Those toenails dry yet, sweetheart? We got some dancin' to do.

View Quote Rockin' good news.

View Quote "If this thing goes bad, Larkin, I'm afraid my daughter won't understand. If you talk to my wife again, you tell her I love her... she's my hummingbird. I just couldn't leave a fallen man behind."

View Quote "Well, Baby O, it's not exactly mai-tais and Yahtzee out here — but let's do it."

View Quote "Now why couldn't you put the bunny back in the box?"

View Quote Here's the thing about the future. Every time you look at, it changes — because you looked at it — and that changes everything else.

View Quote Well, that's magic, folks — and that's why I'm here.

View Quote If I do what you want, you'll keep me in this chair forever.

View Quote [About Guy, who's escaping; gasps] He's loose!

View Quote I have an idea!

View Quote I am a caveman!

View Quote I don't know if I started drinking 'cause my wife left me or my wife left me 'cause I started drinking, but **** it anyway.

View Quote [to Sera] We both know that I'm a drunk. And I know you are a hooker. I hope you understand that I am a person who is totally at ease with that. Which is not to say that I'm indifferent or I don't care, I do. It simply means that I trust and accept your judgment.

View Quote [to Sera] I'll tell you, right now... I'm in love with you. But, be that as it may, I am not here to force my twisted soul into your life.

View Quote [Castor finds Eve's diary in her desk drawer. He flips it open to a recent entry]
Castor Troy: "Date night. Fizzled again. We haven't made love in two months." What a loser. [He ponders, but suddenly hears "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" playing. Cut to Jamie in her bedroom chatting on the phone with her boyfriend in just her panties and t-shirt as the music plays on her stereo]
Jamie Archer: I got your email, Karl. The poem you sent me was pretty kinky. [Castor slowly pushes the door open]
Castor Troy: [inhales] The plot thickens... [Jamie looks up and glares at Castor]
Jamie Archer: [on the phone] Hang on a second. [She attempts to slam the door in Castor's face. Castor steps forward and keeps it from closing] I'll have to call you back. [hangs up] You're not respecting my boundaries.
Castor Troy: I'm coming in, Janie.
Jamie Archer: Janie? [Castor glances at Jamie's bed pillow, with her name stitched on it]
Castor Troy: I don't think you heard me, Jamie. You got something I crave. [Castor presses himself up against Jamie as he reaches around her to grab her cigarettes]
Jamie Archer: Clarissa left those here.
Castor Troy: Oh, well I won't tell mom if you don't. [He lights a cigarette]
Jamie Archer: When did you start smoking?
Castor Troy: You'll be seeing a lot of changes around here. [blows smoke rings in Jamie's face] Papa's got a brand new bag! OW! [Jamie laughs. Castor slowly walks out of the room singing along to the music]

View Quote [Castor and Archer are divided by a glass wall and have their guns drawn]
Castor Troy: [sighs] I don't know what I hate wearing worse: your face or your body. I mean, I certainly do enjoy boning your wife, but let's face it, we both like it better the other way, yes? So why don't we just trade back?
Sean Archer: You can't give back what you've taken from me.
Castor Troy: Oh, well... Plan B: Lets just kill each other.

View Quote [Archer and Castor are in a Mexican standoff in the hangar]
Sean Archer: [jams his pistol into Castor's neck] Give up, Castor! Your time's up! [beat]
Castor Troy: [laughs as his pistol is jammed into Archer's neck] Well, you better hit me, Sean, 'cause you got only one bullet left!
Sean Archer: So do you. [Troy stands up and the two point pistols at each other's heads]
Castor Troy: Wow! We've got something in common! We both know our guns.
Sean Archer: What we don't have in common is that I don't care if I live, and you do.
Castor Troy: Sean, that hurts. You're not having any fun, are you, Sean? Why don't you come with us? Try terrorism-for-hire. We'll blow some shit up! It's more fun!
Sean Archer: Shut the **** up!
Castor Troy: You watch your **** mouth! I'm about to unleash the biblical plague "Hell-A" deserves! But I'll give this shithole a break if my brother and I walk.
Sean Archer: Bullshit.
Castor Troy: Oh-oh, oh, I-I see, I see. Y-You think I'm bluffing. Maybe I am. But then, maybe, I am not. More importantly, what would you do with me locked up? You'd drive your wife and kid crazy! Say, how is your daughter, anyway? Your... your darling Janie? Your little peach? Is she ripe? Ri-ripe-r...I'M READY!! [pulls the trigger but there is no bullet. Castor drops his gun]

View Quote It's okay. I have to go into town anyway to get your anti-itch cream.

View Quote This is the Merlin Circle. It focuses your energy. Helps you master new spells. It is where you will learn the Art. Step inside, you leave everything else behind. Once you enter, there is no going back.

View Quote Dave? You should run.

View Quote Am I a **** ****, man? Am I a **** ****, huh? I know what this is. Lou tried to snuff me out because of his crazy little nephew being around. Well VIVE LA **** FRANCE MAN!

View Quote FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!

View Quote THE **** HANGERS!

View Quote Everything you said about the modern world is true. It is a dangerous place. Only not for us. For them, it's a dangerous, sad, broken place full of fear and desperation. It's weak. Looking for a powerful force to guide it, control it, dominate it. Like you. I mean, this entire society was designed for Renfields, by Renfields. So why should I have to adapt to it? It should have to adapt to me.

View Quote Renfield, your sole purpose in life is to serve me. Now, let's eat!

View Quote You know, I don't ask for much, Renfield. Just the blood of a few dozen innocent people.

View Quote [To Lucas] Calling a human "friend". I thought that impossible, until you came. [Lucas says to him "A wizard knows no such word."] Very true. Here. [He gives to Lucas the potion that will make him big again]. But just wait until you're outside, before you drink it.

View Quote [repeated line] A wizard knows no such word.

View Quote [First words to Lucas] Human! Come with us!

View Quote And the doc went on to explain that this woman, who looked as fertile as the Tennessee Valley, could bear no young. Her insides were a rocky place where my seed could find no purchase.

View Quote I tried to stand up and fly straight, but it wasn't easy with that sumbitch Reagan in the White House. I dunno. They say he's a decent man, so maybe his advisors are confused.

View Quote Nathan needs some Huggies, I'll be out directly. Mind you stay strapped in.

View Quote Because you thought I was cocky, I'm now on a permanent acid trip?

View Quote I just want my life back, okay? Now what's it gonna take? You wanna talk turkey? Let's talk turkey! HOW MUCH MONEY?

View Quote Annie: They did a pretty good job.
Jack: Who did?
Annie: The aliens, in the mothership. You look just like him.

View Quote What's in the bag? A shark or something?

View Quote Oh no, not the bees! Not the bees! Auuuugh! They're in my eyes! My eyes! Aaaauuuurrrrgh!

View Quote This is murder! Murder! You'll all be guilty! And you're doing it for nothing! Killing me won't bring back your god damn honey!

View Quote Since you've insisted on me staying, you should know I intend to do my job by the book which means we don't run errands, we don't make snacks and we don't check our guns at the door. Now if you don't like any of this, I suggest you call Washington and get yourself a new man.

View Quote I'm a secret service agent, Mrs. Carlisle, not a caddy. You want that ball? I suggest you go get it yourself.

View Quote Doug: [Calming the hospital employee who insisted it's hospital policy that patients leave by wheelchair] The regulations aren't really that sacred, are they? And Tess... Get in the god damn chair.
Tess: Hmm. Very good, Douglas. You're going to be all right.

View Quote You are a vicious snowflake.

View Quote I come for the Reaper.

View Quote A psychotic drowns where the mystic swims. You're drowning. I'm swimming.

View Quote [as the South Tower collapses] Run! The elevator shaft!

View Quote [narrating] 9/11 showed us what human beings are capable of. The evil, yeah, sure. But it also brought out a goodness we thought could exist. People taking care of each other for no other reason than it was the right thing to do. It's important to talk about that good, to remember. 'Cause I saw a lot of it that day.

View Quote We're prepared for everything. Car bombs, chemical, biological, an attack from the top. But not this. Not for something this size. There's no plan. We didn't make it.

View Quote People get married and then they do the most hideous, unbelievable things to each other.

View Quote Jack Singer: Do you know what a straight flush is? It's like... unbeatable.
Betsy: "Like unbeatable" is not unbeatable.
Jack Singer: Hey, I know that now, okay.

View Quote Mahi Mahi: My name Mahi. Mahi Mahi.
Jack Singer: Like the fish?
Mahi Mahi: Yeah. My father was a fisherman.
Jack Singer: My father left home when I was 5. That's why I'm named Jack, as in, "Jack tell your mother I'm just going out to get the paper."

View Quote [gas needle reads empty] Story of my ****in' life.

View Quote Suzanne: Have you ever been married?
Michael: No.
Suzanne: It does strange things to people.

View Quote Lyle: I nearly greased your can back there. The least I can do is buy you a beer.
Michael: Thanks but I should get my car, you've done enough already.
Lyle: Now I said I'd help you get your car.
Michael: Really, it's okay.
Lyle: You don't wanna drink with me? I'm not good enough to buy you a beer?

View Quote Speckles: We've got a worm to decipher.
Darwin: You're a genius.
Speckles: I'm a mole. I got a thing for worms. [slurps an earthworm hanging from the ceiling]

View Quote Speckles: Actually, you may call me Mr. Yanshu. Business associate of Leonard Saber.
Darwin: You tricked Saber into helping you build Clusterstorm? How could you do this to us? I thought we were friends. I put my life on the line for you.
Leonard Saber: Yanshu was in my basement this whole time?
Ben: Yeah, and he wasn't a man. He was a mole.
Speckles: "Yanshu" is the Chinese word for mole.

View Quote Speckles: Hello, Darwin.
Darwin: Speckles, you're alive. You infiltrated the bad guy's lair. Where is he?
Speckles: I am the bad guy. What? You really think I let myself get killed in a garbage truck? Ha! Well I hid in a soup can. Rode it all the way to the city dump. And it was stinky.
Juarez: Speckles.
Blaster: I can't believe the mole was the mole.

View Quote [lifts up gun at Mindy] You're gonna be fine, babydoll! [shoots Mindy in the chest]

View Quote Mindy? No more homework, baby doll. It's time for Frank D'Amico to go bye-bye.

View Quote Mindy: You know what? Everyone likes Kick-Ass. If you see the clip he's actually pretty good.
Damon: Good at getting his ass... kicked. They should call him Ass-Kick, instead. [laughs sarcastically]
Mindy: That doesn't even make sense.

View Quote I'm sorry, it seems I wore my long legs today. What happens if I just... [crouches]

View Quote I know you're not afraid of a little dark. Because you are the dark.

View Quote Daddy! Mommy! Un-make me, and save me from the hell of living!

View Quote I lost my hand! I lost my bride! Johnny has his hand! Johnny has his bride!

View Quote Bring me the big knife, I'm gonna cut my throat.

View Quote After Loretta tells him of her impending marriage to his brother.

View Quote [as he sees the wall] What the heck is that?!

View Quote [to Thunk] In my day, we didn't stare at birds! We fought them!

View Quote This place is changing everyone.

View Quote [to Julie after she dumps him] Well **** you, for sure, like totally!

View Quote No one is gonna tell me who I can score with! Now I want this chick, she wants me, so **** it, we're goin' back.

View Quote Randy: [shouting over the noise just as the music ends] So, when can I see you again?
Julie Richman: [embarassed] Gee, Randy... why don't you wait until the end of the evening to say these things?
Randy: It's how I feel. It's what I want.
Julie Richman: I'm here with you now.

View Quote [last words] Hail Mary... full of grace... our Lord is with thee. Holy Mary, Mother of God... pray for us...

View Quote I'm a good **** marine.

View Quote No one else is gonna die.

View Quote [about the Cray-1.] The first supercomputer. You can get all of this on a cell phone now.

View Quote Sometimes, the more you look, the less you see.

View Quote You would think intelligence would count for something in the intelligence business. Right. But you wanna know what it really is? What really sets the agenda? Military industrial happiness management. You keep the coffers open in Congress, you keep the money flowing to the contractors.

View Quote Well, what's the point of being a teenager if you can't dress weird?

View Quote Peggy Sue: I am a grown woman with a life time of experience that you can't understand.
Charlie Bodell: Yeah, girls mature faster than guys.