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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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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 best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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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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I aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.
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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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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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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 was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
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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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Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
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It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.
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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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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 don't have a preference between theatre and film I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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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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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 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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I'm no different to anyone else I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
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