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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
Model
Performing Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
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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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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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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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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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I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
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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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In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
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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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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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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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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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