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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

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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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I don't have a preference between theatre and film I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
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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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Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
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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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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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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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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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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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Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
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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 have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.
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The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
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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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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 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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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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I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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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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I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
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