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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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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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 wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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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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I'm no different to anyone else I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
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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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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 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 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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My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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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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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
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Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
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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've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
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I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.
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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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