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Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

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
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Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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 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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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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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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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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When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.
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Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.
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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 have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.
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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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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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It's fair to say that if you have a lot of experience, your power is greater. You have more of an opportunity to roll up your sleeves with younger directors.
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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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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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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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