Nicholas Cage changed his name quickly in his profession to make his own popular identity apart from the one he already shared with his Professor Father and Director and Dancer brothers. He succeeded splendidly with a long line of excellent, peculiar roles by the late 1980s. At first going for theater at Beverly Hills High, with a history of dropping out, he got a small part in Fast Times at Ridgemont High in the year 1982 – a large portion of which was cut, destroying his trusts and prompting him to sell popcorn at the Fairfax Theater, believing that would be the main course to a film career. In any case Cage carried on with auditions for uncle Francis’ Rumble Fish in the year 1983 which gave him a role in that film, followed by the punk-rocker in Valley Girl in 1983, which was released first and positively fuelled his career. His one-time love for method acting arrived at a particular crossroad when he crushed a road seller’s remote-controlled car to develop the feeling of wrath and anger required for his hoodlum character in The Cotton Club.

Nicholas Cage has some very unusual tattoos. Most of the tattoos that he has on his body are his movie role tattoos. To be clearer, it can be said that they are the depictions of the roles played by him in his previous movies. One unique upper back tattoo that he sports is a lizard wearing a top hat. Other than this, he has tattoos on his left and right hands.