"PLAYBOY: Your salary is shooting up into the multimillions per movie–reportedly $ 4 million to $ 7 million. Do those numbers make you chuckle? CAGE: I don't chuckle. I have respect for the dollar. PLAYBOY: It's a lot of money. CAGE: There's one thing I have some difficulty with, and that's hanging on to money. I find ways of spending money that mystify everybody around me. They're amazed. They want to know how I do it."
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Interview by David Sheff, Playboy magazine, 1996
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