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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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Wisconsin
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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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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.
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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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One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.
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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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Truth is, generally I like film festivals somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
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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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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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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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A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
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I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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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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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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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
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I prefer shooting on location, just because it always helps you. You go some place, you put your life on hold even more than when you've settled in some place. You can make a new life so it opens yourself up to the make-believe and the imagination in a way when you aren't burdened by things that remind you of your life all the time.
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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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Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
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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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I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
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