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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.

Willem Dafoe

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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Performing Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.
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I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.
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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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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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I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.
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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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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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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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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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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 try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.
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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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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
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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'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
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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 guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.
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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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I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.
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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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