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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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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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Sisters
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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.
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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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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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Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
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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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A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should 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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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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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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