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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.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
Film Actor
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Performing Artist
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Stage Actor
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
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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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I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.
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I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
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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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I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
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Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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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.
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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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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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Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction.
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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
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