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Willem Dafoe Inspirational Quotes (97)

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Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
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The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
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I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
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Sometimes you feel like you have to do research to make something, other times you know you don't feel it so much.
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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
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The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
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Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
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The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
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The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.
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Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
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I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
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Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
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Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.
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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
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Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
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As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
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Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, Oh I'd love to work together, and sometimes you never hear from them again.
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When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.
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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
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