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
years television waking
I knew I wanted to be an actor when I was very young. I guess I was about 6 years old at the time, and I was fascinated by television. I started having waking fantasies where I was in a movie and there were crane shots of me during a scene.
father years changed
Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me.
years people boss
When you start a movie, it's not like other kinds of work that you have when you know your boss for years or colleagues for years. You're meeting everyone, mostly, for the first time. You have to get comfortable with those people so you can perform, because the first thing that is going to shut you down is any kind of anxiety.
strong who-i-am years
I remember once imagining what my life would be like, what I'd be like. I pictured having all these qualities, strong positive qualities that people could pick up on from across the room. But as time passed, few became qualities that I actually had. And all the possibilities I faced, and the sorts of people I could be, all of them got reduced every year to fewer and fewer until finally they got reduced to one - to who I am. And that's who I am.
years two trying
I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work.
years age next
I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40.
I like all Japan. I like sushi. I like Mt. Fuji.
american-musician married sad
I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place.
acting image present radio
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.
agreed divorce figure negative time trying turn weather
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,
films man serious themes weather
The Weather Man ... films with more serious themes get more attention.
As a father, that's what disturbs me most,
dreams leagues
One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
cliffs everywhere nails pipes steel sticking unsafe ways
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.