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I will promise you that if I can give you two good scenes -- which is what I always try to do in every movie -- then I feel like I'm doing my job.

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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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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I find children inspiring. The way they look at the world. The magical world they live in, to me, is inspiring.
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.
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Everything we do impacts someone else's life.
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I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks.
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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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You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.
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I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.
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There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.
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As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity.
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I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.
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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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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.
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Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
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I came out of independent film, that's my roots.
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Without impending on your own personal choice, there are going to be those that wear the hat of religion and those that wear the hat of science. I still don't really understand why they can't wear both hats, because personally, I think that they go beautifully together.
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For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver.
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