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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.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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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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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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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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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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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The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.
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