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I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

Willem Dafoe

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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Performing Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.
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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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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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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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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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It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.
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It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.
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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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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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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.
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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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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
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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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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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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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All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
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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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