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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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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
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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've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
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I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.
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Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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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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Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
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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 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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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
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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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I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.
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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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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.
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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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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
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