Nicolas Cage Says Yes, It’s ‘Probably True’ He Never Got Paid for 1995’s Leaving Las Vegas

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1. He got paid with that Oscar win.

2. “But I haven’t been thinking about it,” Cage said. “I got to play a part that I absolutely had to play. There was no doubt in my mind that it would be an experience and a great movie. I wasn’t going to stop — whether they paid me or not, I was making the movie.”

   I admire the passion.

3. I’m a prickly pear

4. It pays to be a Coppola.

5. It was a donation to modern cinema

6. Must be wild to be so rich you just forget if you get paid for a job

7. He left it in Las Vegas

8. I wonder if he got paid for Kiss of Death.

9. It’s also possible that he spent it and forgot.

10. except with an oscar

11. He got paid in seeing titties

12. Truly. The unbearable weight of massive talent.

13. I used to work at a marine research center on a private island right beside his in the Bahamas. Nothing really on it, I never saw him. Our maintenance guy told me Cage would often go out on the beach and stare at the ocean for hours. It sounds weird, but the water in the Exumas is very stunning.

14. Nic Cage gotta be on the shortlist of greatest living actors, straight up

15. He’s a Coppola…there’s no money like family money

16. He’s a Coppola…there’s no money like family money