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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.

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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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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.
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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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Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.
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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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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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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it 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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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've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
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