"They even have a name, he explained. "I am a 'superfrenetic.' Superfrenetics happen rarely, but they happen... Offspring of schizophrenic people. Charlie Chaplin was a superfrenetic."
Instead of being derailed by his mother's illness, Cage remained passionate and channeled his feelings into his acting work. "For me, acting was a way of taking destructive energy and doing something productive with it, and in that way it was quite a life saver," .."
