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You know, the period of World War I and the Roaring Twenties were really just about the same as today. You worked, and you made a living if you could, and you tired to make the best of things. For an actor or a dancer, it was no different then than today. It was a struggle.

James Cagney

War

Actor

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.

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.

Nicolas Cage

Actor

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.

Nicolas Cage

Actor

Rules

There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.

Nicolas Cage

Actor

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.

TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that.

Being an actor is mostly about rejection and being out of work. It was a fast lesson in all of that stuff.