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Willem Dafoe

American

July 22, 1955

Actor

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Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.

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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.

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Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

Tags: You About Know

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Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

Tags: Work You Going

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Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

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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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I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

Tags: Movies Me Want

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.

Tags: Hope Me Because

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.

Tags: Work Like Just

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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The English Patient' is about the coming together of a French-Canadian nurse, an English patient, a Sikh in a turban and me, Caravaggio, and each of us is seeking a resolution to our own problems.

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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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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 wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished.

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