- Actor | January 7, 1964 -
I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do.
Nicolas Cage
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I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the master that made 'Ringu,' and I would like to take 'The Wicker Man' to Japan, except this time he's a ghost.
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The only reason why I tend to pass on a movie is either I don't think I'm right for the material and can't play it honestly, or because of time constraints with personal things in my life.
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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.
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One day, one of my dreams is to someday get to do Nemo in '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.'
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Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.
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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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Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.
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I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.
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I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.
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I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.
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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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