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Nicolas Cage, born on January 7, 1964, is an internationally renowned actor known for his versatile performances across various genres, from thrillers to comedies and dramas. His notable works include 'Face/Off', the 'National Treasure' series, and 'Windtalkers'.

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“When you have 400 people watching you making a movie, it doesn't go where you want it to go. It's a lot of pressure.”

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“When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions.”

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“Generally my instinct is to not do biographical movies. I want to build characters and not be locked into playing a part in history.”

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“I believe that everybody has the right to believe what they want to believe and to knock somebody's faith and religion is foolish, whatever it may be - Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism.”

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“With every action oriented or adventure film, there's going to be a moment when every actor becomes a stuntman and every stuntman becomes an actor. You try to do as much of it as you can, but inevitably the studio wants you to finish the movie. So you've got to slow down and you're really got to defer to your team to make sure you do.”

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“If you get a chance, whenever you're traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don't buy your comics online 'cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids.”

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“I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.”

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“I love it all. I don't want to go through my career with one hand tied behind my back. I love making kids happy. I love the midnight audience. I like intense dramas. And I like high-adrenaline action films.”

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“With the advent of this kind of TMZ culture, it sadly seems to have infiltrated the vanguard of film commentary. I see these reviews sometimes where I think, well, you have a right to say whatever you want about my work, and I will listen whether it's good or bad and see if there's something that I might work with, but personal issues don't have a place in film commentary.”

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“I just want to keep making movies that hopefully makes some kids smile.”

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“I try to keep my characters raising more questions than giving answers. I don't want to leave too much on the table. I want you to have your connection and your secret understanding of the character.”

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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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“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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“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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“As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.”

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“I don't want a perfect character, I want a character who has, as strange as it sounds, some humanity, some flaws, some needs.”

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“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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“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 have eclectic tastes in the movies I want to do.”

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“I want to always find new ways of reinventing myself.”

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“It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.”

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“Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth. What if you just want to tell the truth and not lie about it?”

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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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“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 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 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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“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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“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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“We do see Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi and Chow Yun Fat, but it's very rare to see the Chinese male actor in Hollywood movies, which is something I take great umbrage with. You know, my son is Asian. He may want to direct one day; he may want to be an actor like his father - and I want that to be open to him.”

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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 cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.”

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“Nobody wants to watch perfection.”

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About the Author

Born: January 7, 1964
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 272

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