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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.

Willem Dafoe

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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Performing Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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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Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.
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I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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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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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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I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
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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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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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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.
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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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I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
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The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.
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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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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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Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
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