Nicolas Cage

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1,245 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 16 Jun

Nicolas Cage’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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And I wanted to get inside that TV because those little people in that TV were far more interesting to me than the people in my living room.

And I think that was my earliest memory of wanting to be an actor.

It was people like Bill Bixby and Peter Falk and Rock Hudson and Macmillan and wife and Dennis Weaver and McLeod.

And I loved anything by Rod Serling.

So the television, and it's amazing it's only happened now, was largely responsible for me wanting to become an actor.

At the earliest age, like three, four, five, six, the TV was the savior of my childhood.

Well, I don't want to go into too much detail, but it was not the calmest domestic environment.

And I could go and escape in the TV by watching shows or I could go in the backyard.

Amazing how much time I spent in the backyard without anybody checking on me.

I started digging a hole.

I thought I was going to dig my way to China.

And I kept digging and digging and digging and digging.

And nobody found the hole.

And I had a shovel.

And I kept digging.

I saw roots.

And I saw weird bugs.

And I kept digging and digging.

And I would cover the hole with a plank of plywood.

And someone uncovered it and said, do you see what Nikki's doing?

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