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Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation.

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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Nicholas Kim Coppola
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I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.
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I had been making a lot of family oriented movies, which I also like. But I still have a passion for the midnight audience and for midnight movies.
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Sometimes I do love to rehearse, but I always switch it up depending on whom I'm working with.
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I do enjoy animated movies.
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I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.
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I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.
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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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Nobody wants to watch perfection.
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With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard
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Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD.
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I have a love-hate relationship with New Orleans, which is the strongest sort of relationship. I've had some extraordinary, beautiful, poetic experiences in this city and I've had some terrible experiences in this city. I'm drawn to New Orleans, in many ways feel I grew up in New Orleans, even though I'm from the West.
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I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
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Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.
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We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.
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I'm sticking my tongue out in scenes to try to make that work in 3D. I'm thinking I'll try to get my tongue all the way out to the second row of the audience.
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