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I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.

Willem Dafoe

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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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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My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.
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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 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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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 don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.
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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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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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