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It's nice to go back with people that you already trust.

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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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Back
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I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
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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 never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
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Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world.
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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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All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.
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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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Plenty of bad movies are very successful, and plenty of good movies are not. And distribution is so crazy, some films won't even get their day in court.
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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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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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The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
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I have some sort of affinity for compulsive behavior. The most interesting stories come up from the people on the outside.
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Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
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Sometimes you feel like you have to do research to make something, other times you know you don't feel it so much.
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I try to attach myself to people who really inspire me, and directors who are really passionate. That way, I can give myself more fully and trust the impulse behind why the film is being made, and I can be a little more irresponsible in finding out what the character is.
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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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I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
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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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The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth - it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.
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