It'd be really nice to if we could write an article about Nicolas Cage without having to find different ways of saying 'he's fucking insane'. It'd probably count as libel or slander though, since he's spent a large proportion of his career looking like he'd torture his mum for a bag of Jelly Tots. But it'd be a nice break. Especially since we actually quite like him.

Mind you, he doesn't exactly help himself when describing how he prepares for his standard corrupt ex-cop/alcoholic/corrupt alcoholic ex-cop role. Or in this case, Ghost Rider. Thousand year old Egyptian relics sewn to his costume? Sure. (Via Empire)

"I would paint my face with black and white make-up to look like a Afro-Caribbean icon called Baron Samedi, or an Afro-New Orleans icon who is also called Baron Saturday. He is a spirit of death but he loves children; he's very lustful, so he's a conflict in forces.

"And I would put black contact lenses in my eyes so that you could see no white and no pupil, so I would look more like a skull or a white shark on attack.

"On my costume, my leather jacket, I would sew in ancient, thousands-of-years-old Egyptian relics, and gather bits of tourmaline and onyx and would stuff them in my pockets to gather these energies together and shock my imagination into believing that I was augmented in some way by them, or in contact with ancient ghosts.

"I would walk on the set looking like this, loaded with all these magical trinkets, and I wouldn't say a word to my co-stars or crew or directors. I saw the fear in their eyes, and it was like oxygen to a forest fire. I believed I was the Ghost Rider."

Honestly, you wouldn't even trust him with an empty cardboard box.