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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.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.
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I prefer shooting on location, just because it always helps you. You go some place, you put your life on hold even more than when you've settled in some place. You can make a new life so it opens yourself up to the make-believe and the imagination in a way when you aren't burdened by things that remind you of your life all the time.
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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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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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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 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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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 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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As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
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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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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
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I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
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The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
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In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
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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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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 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 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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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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