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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
Model
Performing Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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Inspiration
Action

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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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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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The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.
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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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For every role, you have to always find a different way to approach it, one that's specific and suits what the key is. Every role's a mystery. I think if you know what it is, you probably shouldn't even do it.
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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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You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
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I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
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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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I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
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Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.
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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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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 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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All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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I love doing action and stuff the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.
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