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" Having been a father for 19 years I realise fatherhood has changed me. "
Nicolas Cage
Years
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Me
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" There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic. "
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" 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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" I never studied dance, but if you look at 'Wild At Heart,' my mother saw that movie and said, 'You are a dancer. Look at how you're moving: all that strange energy is like modern dance.' "
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Dance
Moving
" I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. "
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Roll
Kind
" I've always had an interest in Louisiana, especially New Orleans. "
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Had
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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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Important
Try
Think
" I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together. "
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Would
Love
Good
" I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own. "
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Actor
My Own
Own
" We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him. "
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Great
Day
Fat
" Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. "
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Storytelling
Opportunity
Pain
" Everything we do impacts someone else's life. "
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Else
Someone
Everything
" Hopefully as a result of 'The Frozen Ground,' more and more people will be aware of the horrible things that happen to ladies all over the world and give them respect. This movie is a love letter to those victims. "
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World
People
Love
" Nobody wants to watch perfection. "
Nicolas Cage
Wants
Perfection
Nobody
" It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books. I drive my kid to school. I have lunch with my wife. I pick my kid up from school. I go home. "
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Wife
Lunch
People
" I came out of independent film, that's my roots. "
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Came
Roots
Out
" My father once said, 'If you're in the desert and you're dying of thirst, are you going to drink a glass of blood or are you going to drink a glass of water?' I think what he was trying to say, interesting coming from my blood father, is sometimes there are people in your family that can be toxic. "
Nicolas Cage
People
Father
Family
" As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious. "
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People
Now
More
" If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point. "
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Kind
Intelligence
Numbers
" I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. They're the reason I got into movies. "
Nicolas Cage
Movies
Reason
Like
" I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness. "
Nicolas Cage
Want
Awareness
Thought
" Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they? "
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Me
Children
Future
" I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion. "
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Playing
Lizard
Acid
" I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on. I'd rather not think that it's just about this. "
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Think
Spirit
Always
" I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs. "
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Who
Perfect
Humanity
" I'm not contractually obligated to sequels on anything. "
Nicolas Cage
Obligated
Sequels
Anything
" Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride. "
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Science
Way
Ride
" God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction. "
Nicolas Cage
Literature
Decision
Father
" 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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Me
Training
Acting
" Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. "
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Clear
Understanding
Rhythm