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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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The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
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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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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 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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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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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
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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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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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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 set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an amateur's love.
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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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Trust is always a factor. You've just got to look at the big picture, and you've got to look at the small picture - the small picture in the sense that you've got to make every scene work and you've got to deal with what people are presenting you with, too.
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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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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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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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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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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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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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For every role, you have to always find a different way to approach it, one that's specific and suits what the key is. Every role's a mystery. I think if you know what it is, you probably shouldn't even do it.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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