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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.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
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I love doing action and stuff the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.
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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 was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
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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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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
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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 was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
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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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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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It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.
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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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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'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
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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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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 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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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
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