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Willem Dafoe Inspirational Quotes (97)

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Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
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Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
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I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking when he's joking, I think he's serious.
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I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
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I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.
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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
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Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.
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Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
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When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.
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Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
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That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.
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Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.
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I'm no different to anyone else I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
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The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
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I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.
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I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.
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I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
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I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.
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