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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
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.
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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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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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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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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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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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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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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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Truth is, generally I like film festivals somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
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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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It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.
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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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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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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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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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The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
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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. They don't waste energy marching to the same drummer most of us do. It gives us an opportunity to look at things in a different way, which is the purest thing cinema can do.
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