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" As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious. "
Nicolas Cage
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" I haven't made anything I don't believe in. I've always started a movie with a song in my heart, and even when I'm a little unclear about it, something magical happens and it comes into focus in a way that I'm feeling good about. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the pluses of getting older is you set some limits. "
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" I do enjoy animated movies. "
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" Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. "
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" Mel Blanc is a hero because of what he could do with his voice for all the Looney Tunes, the Warner Brothers cartoons, to be the voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig. To me, he's a great actor. "
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" In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too. "
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" I do like to move and get physical in my movies. "
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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've really had good luck working with younger actors. Every younger actor that I have worked with has always been really on top of their game and fascinating to watch. "
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Top
" One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they're putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I'm about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down. "
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Me
Motorcycle
Car
" Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. "
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Price
Won
Award
" I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. "
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Think
Perfection
People
" 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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Kind
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Feel
" My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting. "
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" Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. "
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Storytelling
Opportunity
Pain
" I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost. "
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Man
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Great
" Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me. "
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Duck
Cool
Behavior
" I always see America as really belonging to the Native Americans. Even though I'm American, I still feel like a visitor in my own country. "
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My Own
America
American
" 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. "
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Feeling
Fire
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" Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences. "
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Thinking
Children
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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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Life
Own
My Own
" I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies. "
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" My house is basically a trailer. I live a circus lifestyle. I'm always moving. It's not always easy for people that live with me, but that's the path I chose. "
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Easy
" I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.' "
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Movies
" I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. "
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Around
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" I don't think movies are the reason why this violence exists, I think it's going to happen whether movies are there or not. "
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Violence
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" I've always maintained that I see myself as a student. There's always something to learn and be challenged by and hopefully grow from. "
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Myself
Student
Grow
" I've gotten pretty good at leaving characters on the set. I go home and try to relax and regroup and be ready for the next day. "
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Home
Good
Leaving