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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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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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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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Nobody can make a movie as exciting as Jerry Bruckheimer. When it's a Jerry Bruckheimer movie that it's going to have lots of chrome and gloss, it's going to be sexy, and it's going to be big and fun.
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The biggest problem for me was feeling that as I became more balanced and a better man that I wouldn't have the fire to create from.
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I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.
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