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I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.

Willem Dafoe

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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'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 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 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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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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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
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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 love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking when he's joking, I think he's serious.
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Socially, I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people.
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When you have something to work with, then you fly with it.
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
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One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.
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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 aspire to be an instrument of the director. I'm happiest like that. The stronger the director, the more I'm willing to give them.
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The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.
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I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.
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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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