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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. "
Nicolas Cage
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You
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" There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false. "
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" 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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" Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and I have a life in the filmmaking world, and so I want to explore all aspects of it, not just the acting, but acting is the root. "
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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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" 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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" I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up. "
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" I mean, I've acted professionally since I was 16. "
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" I don't want you to think that I'm up late reading a stack of Spider-Man comics and eating a tray of lemon cookies while sucking my thumb. I'm not doing that. But I am loyal to the influences of my childhood. "
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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. "
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" 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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" I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles. "
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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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" Film has lost something in the translation to high tech. It's become so super-real. It's with digital this and stereo that, and everything's like a CD. "
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Digital
" One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' "
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Someday
Sea
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold. "
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" 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. "
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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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" I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination? "
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