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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.

Willem Dafoe

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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
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Stage Actor
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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 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 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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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
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I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. I'm attracted to gesture, I'm attracted to singing with your voice, as opposed to having a natural manner. I'm a theater actor first, so that probably influences a lot of my approach. And I think in many ways, naturalism has ruined movies.
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It's fair to say that if you have a lot of experience, your power is greater. You have more of an opportunity to roll up your sleeves with younger directors.
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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 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've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.
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I don't have a preference between theatre and film I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.
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I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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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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The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'
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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 wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.
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Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.
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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 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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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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