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Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.

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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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One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.
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Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
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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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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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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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I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
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Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
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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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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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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 bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.
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Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
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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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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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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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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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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 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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