Nicolas Cage Trivia

Nicolas Cage Trivia

• His film debut was in the 1982 comedy "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"
• Responsible for getting Johnny Depp his first acting job.
• Nicolas Cage has been known to be a big fan of Superman. He has gone as far as to name his son after Kal-El.Superman's kryptonian birth name, in homage to the superhero.
• Nicolas Cage is associated with the internet meme "you don't say."His association started with an image from his role in the movie Vampire's Kiss.
• Nicolas Cage also onced owned one of the ten higher graded issues of Action Comics #1 known to exist. He later sold that same issue.
• Nicolas Cage's stage name is derived from Marvel Comics' character "Luke Cage", AKA Power Man.
• In 2006, he donated $2 million to Amnesty International for a fund to help child soldiers.
• Big fan of Elvis Presley.
• He is trained in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
• On his upper back he has a tattoo of monitor lizard with a top hat.
• Suffers from vertigo.
• He collects comic books, believing them to being today's equivalent of mythology.
• Ranked #40 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list.
• He is half German and half Italian.