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I came out of independent film, that's my roots. I used my independent film as a laboratory, and used what I could discover in that laboratory.

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
Actor
Character Actor
Executive Producer
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Television Presenter
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Long Beach
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Nicholas Kim Coppola
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I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.'
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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 love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles.
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I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything.
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How do you say one actor is better than another actor? You can definitely say that in the Olympics if it's the same race and someone wins the race. The only way to really do it and have it be sincere would be if you get all the actors together, and they're all playing the same part, and then you rate which one made you feel the most.
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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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The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes.
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I do like to move and get physical in my movies.
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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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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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I find it inspiring and I always think when I'm working on something new, whether it's a new kind of character or a new kind of story or new kind of camera, it gets my creative wheels spinning.
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Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
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I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.
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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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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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Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
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I'm always going to judge somebody on their work ethic, and whether or not they made me feel something, or whether or not I felt they did a good job. To me, it's important to try to block anything personal out and look at the performance, in any field.
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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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I love working with younger actors because they always come into the game full of energy and ideas that challenge me and keep me learning and stimulated.
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Some things are true whether you believe in them or not.
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