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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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Performing Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.
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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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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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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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Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
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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 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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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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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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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.
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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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That's a frustration sometimes, that certain directors that I'd like to work with, they just aren't doing stories that I'm sort of castable in. Not always, but sometimes I have that frustration.
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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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The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
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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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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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