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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The Daily · Nicolas Cage Made Himself a Legend. Then He Had to Live With It. · 23 May 2026 podcast

Well, how do you get there?

You become a specialist in compartmentalizing.

Okay, that, I'm not going to think about what was said to me an hour ago.

I am going to shut that off and act from the spinal cord and be happy and turn it on.

And that's not easy.

I think it was on Peggy Sue Got Married, which everyone knows was a movie that I did not really want to partake in.

And I found a way, and the powers that be said okay, to play the part in a way that I thought would be interesting to me.

which was to use this voice that was not considered very attractive and to change my appearance in such a way where it almost became like a cartoon or like a dream cartoon.

I knew full well that that was not going to go over very well, but at the same time, it's what kept me interested.

I knew that I was taking an enormous risk, but...

It was so exciting.

Every day I went to work and I was just saying in my mind, I'm going to

I'm going to do this.

I'm going to stick to it.

And everyone else around me is like, stop, stop, stop.

And I just kept going.

And I'm very happy with that performance for me.

And I think in time, it's matured in a way that's actually quite wonderful.

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