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I've been lucky to work with some of the most creative people and it's true that I enjoy filmmaking and I'm an enthusiast.

Nicolas Cage

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
Actor
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Nicholas Kim Coppola
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Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.
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I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies.
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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 dogs, and it's no secret that I find reptiles interesting, but the thing about reptiles is that they really just wanna be left alone, and I understand them. It's, 'Don't pick me up, stop holding me, don't look at me, just leave me alone.' I have to admit, sometimes I feel like 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 think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.
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I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.
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Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.
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I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered.
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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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My definition of a father is someone who empowers their children.
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At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
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Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
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One of the great bonuses of being a film actor is that I get to go to different places, meet inspiring people and learn different things. So all those details add up.
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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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I love art, I love music. I can listen to Stockhausen and a very experimental, avant-garde approach, and I can listen to Beethoven and have a more classical, traditional approach. Why not be able to do that with film performance?
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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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I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.
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I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood.
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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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