10 Highly Successful Actors Who Don't Actually Act

5. Nicolas Cage

Throughout the eighties Nicolas Cage found himself building a reputation as being a promising rising star of comedic acting, but then something beyond comprehension happened: action movies. Someone, somewhere saw an awkward, balding, not magnificently handsome chap and decided that he was the perfect face for the action movies of the nineties. Some of them worked, with the likes of Face/Off and Con Air remaining reasonably well loved, but since those films, it would appear that either Cage has forgotten to stop acting the part, or that he simply never was acting in the first place. It seems that every single movie in which Cage has appeared since the nineties has featured him combining two things: quietly looking puzzled, and screaming in confused rage. This has led me to the only viable conclusion available: that Nicolas Cage doesn't know he's an actor. He is forever finding bizarre plot twists and confusing clues littered around whichever abode he is currently seeking shelter in, only to fly into a fit of anger when he realises that something's not quite right. Luckily for Cage, he's a determined and committed sort of fellow, as he sees every venture through to the end, in what he perceives to be a matter of life and death. Lord only knows how many times Nicolas Cage has sacrificed himself for the betterment of the world.