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Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

Willem Dafoe

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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Performing Artist
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Stage Actor
Voice Actor
Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.
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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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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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Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.
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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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Truth is, generally I like film festivals somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
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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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I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.
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The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.
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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.
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I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
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The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.
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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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When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
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