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The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.

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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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Truth
Shut
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Mouth
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Mouths
Sometimes
Story
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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
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If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.
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