Veteran actor Nicholas Cage was born Nicolas Kim Coppola on January 8, 1964 in Long Beach, California.

• "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. "




• "I consider cars to be objects of art, and since I can't drive a Picasso, I drive them instead. They symbolize freedom."
  
  
  
• "There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."




• "Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild."




• "It's an alternative to Valium. Rather than drinking a bottle of wine and taking a Valium, if you get into a race-car for two hours and you're driving 160 miles an hour and you're trying to stay alive, you can't think of those problems. It's just kind of ironic, though, that both things can get you killed"




• "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."




• "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 think I jump around more when I'm alone."




• "It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."

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