Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Kim Coppola, known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and producer. He has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action films. In the early years of his career, Cage starred in films such as Valley Girl, Racing with the Moon, Birdy, Peggy Sue Got Married, Raising Arizona, Moonstruck, Vampire's Kiss, Wild at Heart, Honeymoon in Vegas, and Red Rock West...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth7 January 1964
CityLong Beach, CA
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I wanted to see how much I could portray, just with voice-over and just the image I present onscreen. It's a different kind of acting for me . . . It's like silent-film acting and radio acting, at the same time.
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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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Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold.
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Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root.
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I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting.
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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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My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.
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Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small.
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I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I'm in my fifthies, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance.
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There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
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To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
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At the time I agreed to do 'The Weather Man,' I was going through a divorce and I was trying to figure out how I could take a negative and turn it into a positive,
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Well, it's very simple and it may sound strange, but I am Ghost Rider. It wasn't that challenging ... He's a man trying to take a negative and turn it into a positive ... Johnny Blaze has this horrible thing happened to him and he's going to take that negative and make it a positive, no matter what.
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I wish I had learned more about it in high school, but they didn't put it in the history books, ... I have great respect for the Navajo Code Talkers and their heroic acts.