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I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own.

Nicolas Cage

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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I would definitely return to Austria. They were all good experiences for me, but definitely Austria because there were some ancient Celtic, sacred sites that were in the forest that were quite beautiful.
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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
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I don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.
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I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood.
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I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.
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I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.
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I like both Blu-ray and DVD, but Blu-ray gives you more options.
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First of all the criteria that I have that goes into any career decision is whether or not I have the life experience, emotional resources to play the part truthfully or the imagination. Second, would be the director.
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I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.
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One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.
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Peter Fonda is the reason I became a motorcyclist. I saw Easy Rider and I bought a motorcycle the next day, and I rode it all the way from LA to San Francisco.
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I do like characters that have flaws, some sort of pathos to them that they are trying to sort out.
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When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety.
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Without mentioning any names, I looked at pretty much every story that may come to your mind about a politician on the rise who was stopped short or dragged down by personal flaws and then became just a media storm. I see this as a thing that continues to happen in America and I wanted to say something about that.
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Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
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I've always believed that the greatest actors are the ones that have the voices that are imitable.
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I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think.
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