"Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild"
- Nicolas Cage
About this Quote
Nicolas Cage's quote speaks with the trouble of being taken seriously as an actor in Hollywood. He was seen as an outsider, and his eccentric behavior and distinct design of acting made it tough for individuals to determine if he was an actor or a "nut". He was typically typecast as a "insane character" and his track record as an "unusual, different and wild" person made it hard for him to be taken seriously. This quote speaks to the battles of being a star in Hollywood, and how hard it can be to be taken seriously when you don't fit the mold of what is anticipated. It also speaks with the importance of being true to yourself and not conforming to what is expected of you, even if it implies you might not be taken seriously.
This quote is written / told by Nicolas Cage somewhere between January 7, 1964 and today. He was a famous Actor from USA.
The author also have 14 other quotes.
"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"
"On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking"
"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"
"I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries"
"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right"
