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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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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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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
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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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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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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 am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
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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 never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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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 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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The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
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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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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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The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
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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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In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
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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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My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.
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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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