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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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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
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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 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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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 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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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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In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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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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When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
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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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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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The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.
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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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