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Nicolas Cage

Profession : Actor

Birth : January 7, 1964

I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.

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I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.

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I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

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As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me.

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I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood movies or Charles Bronson or James Bond.

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Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it.

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My father was always getting excited about something. It's genetically inside me somewhere.

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It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even.

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I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it.

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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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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 at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

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I do like to move and get physical in my movies.

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I have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.

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I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are cogent.

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And what I like about it is it makes me happy and I think it makes a lot of people happy to go to the movies and to not think about the problems of the day or the problems of tomorrow or the yesterday and just go on for the ride and have the fun of losing oneself in a fantasy.

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How do you rebel in a family of rebels?

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I hit the ground running, without a lot of training, so I had to do whatever I could do to survive as a professional, and if that meant being that character 24/7 and acting out, I was going to do that. I lived those characters, I brought them home with me.

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I may be alone in this, but I do sense the power of film, in that movies have the ability to literally change people's minds. That's pretty powerful stuff when you consider that.

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I bought a Yamaha-1 and I was doing 180 miles per hour home on the 405 and that's really, really crazy but I did it.

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