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" 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. "
Nicolas Cage
My Own
America
American
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" Film acting is one of the only industries where you're criticized for working hard. In any other industry, it's considered a quality and something to behold. "
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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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" You can choose your family sometimes. You can choose people, it could be a teacher, it could be a professor, it could be someone you work with that actually genuinely cares about you and wants you to succeed. "
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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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" I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think. "
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" I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection. "
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Mirror
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" 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. "
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Want
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Thought
" 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'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. "
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" 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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Lunch
People
" 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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" 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
" At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man. "
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Power
Name
Man
" I have a love / hate relationship with the city of New Orleans, which is the strongest kind of relationship. "
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Love
Relationship
City
" Celebrity is a word I take great umbrage with. I'm actively anti-celebrity. "
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Great
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" 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. "
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People
Father
Family
" 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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Doing
Easy
People
" I believe that there's a way to question authority with manners, with dignity. There's no reason to be rude about it. "
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Dignity
I Believe
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" Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be. "
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Dreams
Power
Your Dreams
" 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. "
Nicolas Cage
Look
Medicine
Evil
" 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. "
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Myself
Darkness
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" Most of my favourite moments in film have been when I've had an opportunity to say something from scratch, something original, whether I jotted down a few lines or it came out in improvisation. "
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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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Hero
Duck
Great
" When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?' "
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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
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" Acting is like any other art form, in that you have the option to go very big or go very small. "
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" I'm not an anarchist any more. I still love the Sex Pistols, but I don't want to be a punk rocker all the time, but I do want to carry on exploring new forms of acting. "
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" You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you. "
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" Children, to me, are of the utmost importance. They're really the future, aren't they? "
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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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