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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One of the things I would suggest to anybody who is feeling burnt in the film business, ... They should spend one hour with Martin Scorsese and they'll be rejuvenated, because this man has so much passion and love for the craft of filmmaking that it's impossible not to have it rub off on you. It's exhilarating to be around.
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When I received the script for 'The Weather Man,' I thought, 'Oh well, here's a parallel.' Sometimes I choose movies that help me do something positive with a negative emotion. And 'The Weather Man' was an opportunity to take this well of feeling that I had and just funnel it.
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I don't like it when people on the street say ''smile'' or ''cheer up.'' It's a real cheap line. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling real grateful for everything. It's a solid time in my life. When people say I look sad, they're wrong.
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I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument.
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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.
I like all Japan. I like sushi. I like Mt. Fuji.
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I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place.
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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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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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As a father, that's what disturbs me most,
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One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
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Alcatraz is an unsafe place to actually make a movie in many ways because there are cliffs and rotting corroding steel pipes everywhere and old nails sticking up.
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I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it.