The act of gradually destroying your own success, or burning up your good will.
Even though Nicolas Cage is one of the highest paid celebrities in the world, the actor is broke and lives paycheck-to-paycheck to afford his millionaire lifestyle (he owns castles, plural). So now the more terrible movies he does (just to get paid), the more people forget what they liked about him. He's downward spiraling. He's Nicolas Caging.
AKA the slow, humiliating Crash and burn.
Even though Nicolas Cage is one of the highest paid celebrities in the world, the actor is broke and lives paycheck-to-paycheck to afford his millionaire lifestyle (he owns castles, plural). So now the more terrible movies he does (just to get paid), the more people forget what they liked about him. He's downward spiraling. He's Nicolas Caging.
AKA the slow, humiliating Crash and burn.
"How's my new job going? Honestly, I should update my resume, because I am just Nicolas Caging this thing into the ground."
"Our first date was going really well, but then I told her like a hundred knock-knock jokes. Yeah, she pretty much lost interest once I started Nicolas Caging..."
"Did you hear about that guy who won the lottery and is now on welfare? That's some hard-core Nicolas Caging right there."
"Our first date was going really well, but then I told her like a hundred knock-knock jokes. Yeah, she pretty much lost interest once I started Nicolas Caging..."
"Did you hear about that guy who won the lottery and is now on welfare? That's some hard-core Nicolas Caging right there."
by ColinStandsUp November 3, 2011
The act of committing a wrong doing or seeing something tragic, not being phased by it at the time, but years later remembering said incident then crying about it like it just happened
crap someone killed my daughter, oh well (thirty years later) they killed my daughter NOOOOOOO!, listen to johnny he's Nicolas Caging pretty bad
by mac-10 June 22, 2015
An actor who is physically unable to show restraint when accepting film roles. The quality of the role is reflected in the length of his hair. A neat haircut will surely garner some sort of critical recognition (e.g. Leaving Las Vegas, Lord Of War, Adaptation) One of the few actors in Hollywood to get incrementally worse with each role. Also, he has a tendency to appear in odd publications such as Serbian textbooks and Civil War photographs. He is possibly inhuman, inflicting generations of unsuspecting movie goers for generations to come.
"Nicolas Cage is the finest actor of our generation". -Nicolas Cage, Academy Award speech 1995.
"I'm just glad he was never in the Godfather". -Francis Ford Coppola
"He was an absolute pleasure to work with, truly an extraordinary talent". -The Mop from The Sorcerer's Apprentice
"I'm just glad he was never in the Godfather". -Francis Ford Coppola
"He was an absolute pleasure to work with, truly an extraordinary talent". -The Mop from The Sorcerer's Apprentice
by UncleJessC July 28, 2012
the ability to figure out impossible stuff from very, very abstract and vague clues, much like nicolas cage.
"My cat had a rash on its tummy that looked like an eagle so I fed it a dollar bill and it lead me to treasure in the back yard!"
"You Nicolas Cage'd that shit!"
"You Nicolas Cage'd that shit!"
by SUG4RPLUMx September 7, 2009
1) An actor famous for movies that are either God-awful (Ghost Rider) or inexplicably awesome (Raising Arizona). He tends to overact a lot.
2) One of the internet's greatest mysteries.
2) One of the internet's greatest mysteries.
by heyitscarly28 February 27, 2014
Ginny: * laughs* I'm totally going to Nicolas Cage him! * uploads Nicolas cage pic all over desktop* *makes background Nicolas cage*
John: What are you doing Ginny!
Ginny: *say nothing*
John: dang I've been Nicolas caged!
Ginny: *laughs crazy*
John: What are you doing Ginny!
Ginny: *say nothing*
John: dang I've been Nicolas caged!
Ginny: *laughs crazy*
by Ready set go February 3, 2014
An actor who can only be described as hit and miss, and commonly follows the "rule of 4"... the rule states that any Nicolas Cage movie where Cage has hair longer than four inches will be terrible (Con Air, Bangkok Dangerous), while any in which he has hair shorter than four inches will be good
guy: did you see that Wicker Man remake?
friend: it was awful, Nicolas Cage should really follow the rule of four
friend: it was awful, Nicolas Cage should really follow the rule of four
by olivier22 January 18, 2011