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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

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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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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 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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I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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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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I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.
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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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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'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.
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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
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I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.
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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
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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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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 never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
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Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.
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