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Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.

Nicolas Cage

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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Long Beach
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Nicholas Kim Coppola
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