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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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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
Called
Netherlands
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Nickname
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Billy
Family
Dutch
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William
Born
Hated
Father
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Willem

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I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
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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 do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
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You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
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Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
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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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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
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The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
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I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking when he's joking, I think he's serious.
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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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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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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 am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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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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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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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
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