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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.

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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The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
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When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
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I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.
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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've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
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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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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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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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Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
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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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The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
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When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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