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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.

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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 try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
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I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.
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When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.
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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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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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Mounting those red stairs [in Cannes] is something I've done with a very different intention many times. So it's interesting any time you witness those shifts of perspective. The beach scenes were also fun. It felt very strange and very theatrical to kind of commandeer it and have La Mer booming over the speakers.
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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
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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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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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You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
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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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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 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 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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Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.
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The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
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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 was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
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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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