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As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.
Willem Dafoe
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Willem Dafoe
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: July 22
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Appleton
Wisconsin
William J. Willem Dafoe
William James Dafoe
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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 never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in 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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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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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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Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.
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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'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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