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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.

Willem Dafoe

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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 want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
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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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I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking when he's joking, I think he's serious.
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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've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
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I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
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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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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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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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Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
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One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.
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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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