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" The fact that 'Astro Boy' appealed to me as a boy in America was proof that the story and character transcend cultural stereotypes. "
Nicolas Cage
Me
Story
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" I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies. "
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" I want people to discover my movies, and however they choose to receive it is their business. "
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Business
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" I do enjoy animated movies. "
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" 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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Lizard
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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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Want
Love
Exploring
" As a child, these colourful superheroes that could fly, or were horrifying like Ghost Rider and the Hulk, with this tremendous rage or these supernatural powers, provided an escape for me from my mundane existence, from my lack of friends or my inability to communicate well with people. They liberated me. "
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Child
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" People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual. "
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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. "
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Age
Book
You
" Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort of root in the abstract. "
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People
Good
Science
" I love all animals. I have a fascination with fish, birds, whales - sentient life - insects, reptiles. "
Nicolas Cage
Fish
Life
Whales
" If I do do a sequel, I'm going to have to know for sure that the script is better than the original. So I'm going to be very careful about that because I'm not eager to repeat myself. "
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Original
Going
Better
" 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. "
Nicolas Cage
Myself
Student
Grow
" 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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Try
Think
" I've acted professionally since I was 16. "
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Since
Professionally
Acted
" One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' "
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Dreams
Someday
Sea
" 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. "
Nicolas Cage
Family
Work
Teacher
" 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. "
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How
Arts
Family
" I try to make two movies a year. To me, that's not too much. On top of that, I like to work. "
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Movies
Top
Try
" To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new. "
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You
Actor
Good
" 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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Deep
Work
Truth Is
" I love England - it's no secret. "
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Secret
No Secret
Love
" 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. "
Nicolas Cage
Working Hard
You
Film
" I invite the entire spectrum, shall we call it, of feeling. Because that is my greatest resource as a film actor. I need to be able to feel everything, which is why I refuse to go on any kind of medication. Not that I need to! But my point is, I wouldn't even explore that, because it would get in the way of my instrument. "
Nicolas Cage
Kind
Explore
Feel
" 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. "
Nicolas Cage
Boss
Anxiety
Work
" I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection. "
Nicolas Cage
Think
Perfection
People
" 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. "
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Movies
Enjoy
Think
" I'm very impressed with 'Drive.' "
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Impressed
Very
Drive
" 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. "
Nicolas Cage
Doing
Easy
People
" Mike Myers as Austin Powers makes me laugh - that was genius - and Daffy Duck makes me laugh, but I like odd behavior. I don't like hip dialogue and one-liners and all that sort of cool, sophomoric comedy. It's just not for me. "
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Duck
Cool
Behavior
" I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility. "
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Image
Roll
Kind