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" Helen Mirren is someone that I have really admired ever since I saw her in 'Excalibur.' That was the first thing I said to her. 'I loved you as Morgan Le Fay.' "

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" I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. "

Nicolas Cage

Dignity

I Believe

Believe

" For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver. "

Nicolas Cage

Life

Energy

" I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do. "

" Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small. "

Nicolas Cage

Acting

Art

" I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre. "

" 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. "

" Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool. "

" I know what it's like to meet someone you admire and have them be a complete jerk. "

Nicolas Cage

Admire

Know

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

" I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. "

" I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work. "

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

" 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. "

" I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. "

" I came out of independent film, that's my roots. "

" 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. "

" Look, I happen to still like really dark, dramatic, fractured characters. "

Nicolas Cage

Dark

Happen

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

Nicolas Cage

Always

Father

" I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. "

" 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. "

Nicolas Cage

Young

Actor

" I definitely went through my magic phase. I think all little boys do at some point or another - they get fascinated by magic tricks. "

" Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they? "

Nicolas Cage

Children

Future

" Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating. "

Nicolas Cage

Always

Interesting

" 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. "

Nicolas Cage

Motorcycle

Car

" I'll speak for myself, but there's a lot of humor to be found in sarcasm and darkness. You talk to any paramedic, they survive by developing a pretty off-kilter sense of humor. "

" Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there's the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there's the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing. "

" 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. "

" As I got older, with my work, I became aware of the responsibility of film, and I feel one of the best ways I can apply myself as an actor, is to go beyond movie stardom and celebrity. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a trained actor. I'm someone who is autodidactic and learned on my own. "