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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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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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Honestly
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Wild

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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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For every role, you have to always find a different way to approach it, one that's specific and suits what the key is. Every role's a mystery. I think if you know what it is, you probably shouldn't even do it.
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Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
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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'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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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
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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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When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
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In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
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A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
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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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If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.
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I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.
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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, Oh I'd love to work together, and sometimes you never hear from them again.
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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
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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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