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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
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It's fair to say that if you have a lot of experience, your power is greater. You have more of an opportunity to roll up your sleeves with younger directors.
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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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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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When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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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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A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
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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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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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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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Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.
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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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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 was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
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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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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.
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I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.
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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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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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