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" It's no secret that I've always had an interest in mythology. Whether it's Arthurian or ancient Greek or even Marvel universe. I've always connected with it on some level. "

Nicolas Cage

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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

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Energy

" 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. "

" I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. "

" When I won the Oscar, I made a point of actively going against that and doing adventure films like 'Con Air' and 'Gone in 60 Seconds,' not what would be expected. "

Nicolas Cage

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Air

" When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that. "

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

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

" Picasso said, 'Art is a lie that tells the truth.' What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it? "

" 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. "

" When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music. "

" I've acted professionally since I was 16. "

" I care about the connection with the audience. Film is such a powerful medium. Movies can change the way people think. "

" How do you rebel in a family of rebels? That's the age-old question. I guess I could have by not going into the arts, but the thing is, I couldn't do anything else. "

" Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. "

" 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. "

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

" The movies I cannot go without and that I watch annually are 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Scarface' and 'Fantasia.' "

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

" 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. "

Nicolas Cage

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" 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. "

" Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios. "

" I'm not really gadget oriented. I'm not into technology or computers. I'm not good at interfacing with that sort of gear. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think the paparazzi might have chased me out of Los Angeles. "

Nicolas Cage

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