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Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.

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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Comfort
Encourages
Compassion
Broader
View
Brutal
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World
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A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.
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You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons.
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I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy. Besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work.
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It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.
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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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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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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
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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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I pride myself on being fairly polite on a set so it's kind of a guilty pleasure to poke others on the set.
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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 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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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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My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.
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Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
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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.
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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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Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, Oh I'd love to work together, and sometimes you never hear from them again.
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Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
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