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Willem Dafoe Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.
In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
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.
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.
I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.
It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.
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.
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.
I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.
I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.
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.
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.
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan.
I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive.
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.
Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider.
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.
Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.