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I don't know why it is, but I do like dancing in the extreme situations. I like that noise, I like that intensity. For some reason, it's what I respond to in terms of my taste and of my instincts.

Nicolas Cage

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Nicolas Cage
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 7
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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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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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Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.
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Feel like real time unfolding. It's going to smack of reality and feel as real as it can ... The buildings themselves aren't (shown) ... The movie's about what happened amongst this handful of men when the buildings came down.
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We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.
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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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I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk.
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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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I think that the best characters are the ones who both manage to be attractive and repulsive at the same time.
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I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.
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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 don't know if my wife left me because of my drinking or I started drinking 'cause my wife left me.
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Nobody wants to watch perfection.
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I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it.
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