At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.
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Related I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I g... COREY TAYLOR I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra... WALTER DEAN MYERS I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n... ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't ... ANNA KENDRICK When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw ... ELVIS PRESLEY I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we ... J. K. SIMMONS I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men... CHARLYNE YI I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was ... J. K. SIMMONS I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic bo... LEN WEIN A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic boo... JOSS WHEDON I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly ... DAVE GIBBONS He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like ... STEPHEN KING Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes! DEYTH BANGER From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like... BILL MUMY I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read. IDRIS ELBA The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that. SOL LEWITT I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravit... DRAKE BELL Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and ... BILL MUMY Before I went off to Rutgers, I worked in a comic book shop in my hometown. At night, I would work o... CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and ... BILL MUMY Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30... BILL MUMY Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feis... BILL GRIFFITH Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collect... CHRIS WARE I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. ... CANDICE PATTON First it was the fascinating comic book art that caught my attention, ... Later, I began to read the... BILL PHILLIPS Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. TIM BURTON I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing. ZAYN MALIK Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. AARON ASHMORE Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the acti... HUGH JACKMAN If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one. SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. ALISON BECHDEL 'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So ... FRANK MILLER Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo... SAM RAIMI I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest. RAIN I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff. CHAD LINDBERG Age is like a cage. Do not lock yourself in this cage. IRFAN SAEED My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics. ADRIANNE PALICKI Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado. DANAI GURIRA I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. ALAN RITCHSON When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is ... JUDITH HOAG I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated an... EDWARD SAID I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the... CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called '... ADRIAN TOMINE 'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comi... RIDLEY SCOTT I was interested in finding ways to do dark comedy that were actually dark and comic. DANIEL HANDLER The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth wa... JONATHAN HICKMAN No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do thin... DONAL LOGUE I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book... JEFF LEMIRE The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. ... DAVID DASTMALCHIAN [ X-Men producer Lauren Shuler Donner] showed me the first comic book and there was this bald guy in... PATRICK STEWART I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in lif... ALAN RITCHSON When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books. ALAN KING Nicolas Cage is a great actor and he's done some good action movies too. DOLPH LUNDGREN My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long... SHERMAN ALEXIE I ran Book Expo for five years, and while running that show, I started recognizing the explosive gro... GREG TOPALIAN When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and '... R. L. STINE I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as ... FRANK MILLER When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th... ELVIS PRESLEY It was there in the hall that I began drawing Captain Underpants, ... Soon I was making my own comic... DAV PILKEY At home, I have lot of pictures from 'The Walking Dead' and some stuff from comic books. At ... CHANDLER RIGGS You know, I'm a big comic book fan. As a kid I used to collect them until there was a horrible m... TIM MATHESON There was a best-selling book in the late '60s and '70s called 'The Adventurers' by ... DAX SHEPARD I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was ... STANA KATIC Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to r... JACK MCDEVITT I love comic books and I love anime. SAMUEL L. JACKSON I grew up on EC comic books and 'Tales From the Crypt,' which were all loaded with humor, ba... GEORGE A. ROMERO You know you are really famous when becoming a comic character, NELSON MANDELA I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a ... KARI WAHLGREN Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up. BAZ LUHRMANN Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'... WHIT STILLMAN I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable. NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7... DAVE GIBBONS Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love th... AARON ASHMORE Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by ... MEG CABOT Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan. KAT DENNINGS As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store booksto... BEN KATCHOR To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un... ALAN MOORE I was far from being a child prodigy, and yet I learnt relativity at the age of 15! RAY D'INVERNO My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop... GRAHAM NORTON No matter how beautiful you make it, a cage is still a cage. MAHRUKH My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain A... WALTER MOSLEY I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it a... ED OXENBOULD I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really you... DAKOTA FANNING I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling ab... RUTINA WESLEY At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex... GENE LUEN YANG [HOLLYWOOD, California (Variety) -- Nicolas Cage, who played twins in] Adaptation ... It's time for ... ARMY ARCHERD It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose! ALICE JAMES I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on an... MACKENZIE DAVIS I never use a score when conducting my orchestra. Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how ... DIMITRI MITROPOULOS My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I cou... ROBERT PICARDO We started out thinking of this as a comic book. We filled notebook after notebook with ideas. That'... ANDY WACHOWSKI The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought ... CHARLES SOULE I'm not the biggest comic book fan. FRAN KRANZ I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid. J. AUGUST RICHARDS Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-g... GEORGE A. ROMERO From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can lite... TOM STOPPARD When I was your age, television was called books. WILLIAM GOLDMAN When I was your age, television was called books. THE PRINCESS BRIDE I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very youn... GARTH NIX Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric... CHESTER BROWN
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