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Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age. I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it's one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself.
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If you get a chance, whenever you're traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don't buy your comics online 'cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids.
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I do like to move and get physical in my movies.
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I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
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When I started experimenting with fantasy and horror films and looking for characters who had some sort of emotional or mental difficulty, I saw opportunities to express my music - dare I say art - in a way that I could get a bit surreal.
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I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree.
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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 wasn't any good at romnace. I was a total nerd. My thing is, I was just too romantic. I was the romantic goofball. I wasn't cynical enough or harsh enough. I cared too much, so I always made a fool out of myself.
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Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.
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You often feel like you are on a high wire with no net productions because you have to rely on spontaneity and come up with ideas on the spur of the moment - and then what happens is that there is electricity to it that gets caught.
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I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.
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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.
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Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.
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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'm going to steal the Declaration of Independence.
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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 think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.
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Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.
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In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.
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With my name in cement, I feel actualised. - On cementing his hand prints on Sunset Boulevard
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