Cage gasped into existence on January 7, 1964, in Long Beach, as Nicolas Kim Coppola, the son of a literature professor and a dancer, and the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola. [Image via Wikimedia]

Cage attended and then dropped out of Beverly Hills High.

Cage fell in love with acting during a summer class at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. [Photo by Marco Lorenzetti; courtesy ACT]

Cage made his film debut as Judge Reinhold's friend and All American Burger coworker in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (he was credited as Nicolas Coppola); the burger joint location is now a Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf.

In her memoir, Kathleen Turner claimed Cage was arrested for drunk driving and stealing a dog during the filming of Peggy Sue Got Married, and that he drunkenly begged her on his knees to forgive his bad behavior. He sued for libel and she had to publicly apologize.

This is the location in Raising Arizona where Nic Cage's character HI McDunnough steals a baby.

After a lot of weird courtship rituals (black orchids, purple cakes), Arquette and Cage married on the cliffs in Carmel in 1995, leaving the scene together in a blue Ferrari. They separated nine months later, but didn't divorce until 2001. [Image via Featureflash / Shutterstock.com]

In 1996, Cage received his first and so far only Oscar, for his role in Leaving Las Vegas, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. [Image via Getty]

In the mid-nineties, Cage finally got his chance to play Superman (he later named his son Kal-El; he loves Superman). Tim Burton was going to direct Superman Lives from a script first by Kevin Smith, then Wesley Strick, then Dan Gilroy. Burton picked Pittsburgh to play Metropolis before it all fell apart.

Cage got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 31, 1998. [Image via Featureflash / Shutterstock.com]

That's DOCTOR Cage. He has an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Cal State Fullerton.

Sometime during their engagement, Lisa Marie Presley reportedly threw her $65,000 diamong ring off the side of Cage's boat near Catalina Island. They made up, though. Then they broke up, got back together, got married, and got divorced. [Image via Featureflash / Shutterstock.com]

While married to Lisa Marie Presley, it’s rumored that Cage was allowed inside Elvis Presley’s Graceland bedroom, making him the only person outside of the immediately Presley family with the privilege. American Spirit / Shutterstock.com

Cage met current wife Alice Kim at this now-shuttered nightclub in Koreatown in 2004. [Image via ChinellatoPhoto / Shutterstock.com]

In 2009, Cage—an avid reptile keeper—donated his two-headed gopher snake to this zoo in New Orleans. [Photo via Shutterstock]

Bad boy Cage was appointed UN Goodwill Ambassador for Global Justice at the United Nations Correspondents Association Fifteenth Annual UNCA Awards Dinner on December 15, 2010. "Until today, justice has been a cause without a rebel. Now we have one," said UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa. [Image via cinemafestival / Shutterstock.com]

While on The Late Show With David Letterman in 2012, Letterman asked Cage about a claim made by antiques dealer Jack Mord, after Mord found a Civil-War-era photograph of a man who looked eerily similar to Cage, that Cage is a vampire. “Let me say that there is a resemblance, but—how can I be polite about this—it’s a, uh, somewhat slowed down version of me," Cage said. He went on to explain how he’s not a vampire. “Well, now, now. Look, I don’t drink blood and last time I looked in the mirror I had a reflection, so I’m not going with his vampire theory. Sorry. I’m just not going to do it.”

Statistically (according to IMDb), Cage's worst movie is 2014's Left Behind remake, filmed in Baton Rouge.

In 2007, Cage paid £4.75 for Midford Castle, an Eighteenth Century Bath folly in the shape of the Ace of Clubs. In 2009, he listed it for £3.5 million.

Cage bought this double unit in Manhattan's Olympic Tower in the mid-aughts for $5.5 million; in 2009, he sold it for $7.5 million.

Cage bought this house on 1964 on Mulholland Highway in 2005 for $1.8 million; he sold it in the big sell-off of 2009 for $1.375 million.

Cage rented this four-story loft in Downtown LA in 2008, before it sold to fellow actor Vincent Gallo in 2009. Curbed LA heard a rumor he asked Gallo if he could move back in, but Gallo decided to sell the place instead.

In 2006, Cage reportedly paid $9.4 million for a six-bedroom, six-and-a-half-bathroom, 4,571-square-foot Gothic Tudor in San Francisco’s posh Russian Hill neighborhood, plus an adjoining vacant lot. Just two years later, he sold the property (and probably also the lot) at a loss for $8.5 million.

Cage's other house in New Orleans was a former chapel once owned by author Anne Rice. He bought it in 2005 for $3.45 million and lost it to foreclosure in 2009 and it sold to its next owner for $2.2 million.

Cage bought this faux English Country estate near Newport (with a library, billiard room, and conservatory, 12 bedrooms, and 11 bathrooms) for $15.7 million in 2007, but ended up selling in 2011 for just $6.2 million.

In 2006, Cage reportedly bought Leaf Cay Island, in the Exuma chain of islands in the Bahamas, for $3 million. In 2008 he put the 45-acre island on the market for $7 million.

Cage bought this hideous, 14,000-square-foot pile in 2006 for $8.5 million and tried to sell in 2008 for $9.95 million. When that didn't work, the bank foreclosed and the house re-sold for around $4.95 million.

In 2010, Cage bought himself this nine-foot-tall, pyramid-shaped tomb in New Orleans's famous St. Louis Cemetery. Like we need more evidence he's in the Illuminati. [Image via Cory Doctorow]