Nicolas Cage Net Worth

Nicolas Cage's Quotes

• 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.
• There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic.
• 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.
• [about his marriage to Lisa Marie Presley] I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place.
• 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.

Interesting Facts about Nicolas Cage

1. His father was of Italian descent. His maternal grandfather was of approximately three quarters German and one quarter British Isles (English, Scottish) ancestry. His maternal grandmother was of Polish descent.
2. 2000: Filed divorce papers from Patricia Arquette in February, withdrew them in April. The two divorced in 2001.
3. October 1997: Ranked #40 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
4. Was engaged to Kristen Zang.
5. Nephew of Francis Ford Coppola and Talia Shire.
6. Received Johnny Depp his first acting job.
7. Close friends with Tom Waits, Crispin Glover and Rush drummer Neil Peart.
8. Stage name taken from comic book character Luke Cage.
9. Owns a Lamborghini that used to belong to Prince Ali-Reza Pahlavi, the former prince of Iran.
10. Younger brother of Marc Coppola and Christopher Coppola.
11. Grandson of Carmine Coppola.
12. Proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day he met her in the early 1980s. Arquette thought he was rather strange but played along with his antics by creating a list of things Cage would have to fulfill to win her. When he started to work his way through the list, Arquette got scared and avoided him. They met again many years later and later went on to marry.
13. 1997: He lived in a fake castle on the outskirts Los Angeles. He wants to import an authentic one from overseas.
14. Loves to improvise, ocassionally to the annoyance of other cast members.
15. Collects comic books and sees them as being today's equivalent of mythology.
16. The Wild at Heart (1990) movie poster lists his name as both "Nicolas Cage" and "Nicholas Cage".
17. 1998: Ranked #37 in Premiere magazine's 100 most powerful people in Hollywood.
18. 1984: Listed as one of 12 "Promising New Actors of 1984" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 36.
19. On his upper back, he has a tattoo of monitor lizard with a top hat.
20. 2001: Announced that he is dating Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis Presley. They later married.