Willem Dafoe Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Willem Dafoe

  People, Want, Different

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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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  People, Passionate, Want

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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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.

  Willem Dafoe

  Character, People, Giving

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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

  Willem Dafoe

  Actors, Ready, Best Things

  "Willem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2013.

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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

  Character, Suffering, Actors

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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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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  Father, Names, Netherlands

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• I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.

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  Bridges, People, Want

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin bombs and all this other stuff to express yourself with.'

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  Bombs, Stuff, Pumpkin

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• I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.

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  Sports, Dark, Community

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• I like the idea of sitting in a theater with a bunch of people. With technology now, people are getting more and more isolated. I like the community coming around the story. You don't have that with a DVD. People go home, they're tired from work, they can turn it off. It doesn't make you commit the same way, if you can control the movie. More difficult movies, it's too easy to turn them off. All the time, I see movies I know if I had seen it on DVD, I wouldn't have hung with it. If you see it on the screen, you hang with it and it pays off better than a movie you can easily sit through on DVD.

  Willem Dafoe

  Home, Tired, Technology

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.

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  Thinking, Serious, Dry

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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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  Real, Dvds, People

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women, I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.

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  Talking, Laughing, Guy

  "What I know about women". Interview with Rosamund Witcher, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2009.

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

  Willem Dafoe

  Nice, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but that's not always true, just because of popular taste or any other reasons. When something doesn't do better than it deserves to in your mind, it's pretty transparent - you usually know why. Is that a comfort? Yes, because it's logical. Does it make you happy? No, because if you think a movie is beautiful or interesting, you want to share it. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• I don't have a preference between theatre and film; I like to do both. But I will say that there's something about theatre that is more nourishing and sustaining than film ever can be.

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  Theatre, Film, Preference

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• 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.

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  Character, People, Important

  Interview with Steven Hyden, www.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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• If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.

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  Gun, Littles, Sticks

  "Willem Dafoe Talks OUT OF THE FURNACE, Playing Conflicted Characters, Bringing an Eastern European Flair to His Character, and Future Projects". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. December 6, 2013.

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• I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.

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  Doubt, Creeps, Projects

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• Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.

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  Mean, Past, Sometimes

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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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  Asking, Actors, Growing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For every role, you have to always find a different way to approach it, one that's specific and suits what the key is. Every role's a mystery. I think if you know what it is, you probably shouldn't even do it.

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  Thinking, Different, Mystery

  Source: film.avclub.com

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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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  Fun, Lying, Dirty

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.

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  Mistake, Thinking, Choices

  "Sculpting Away: An Interview with Willem Dafoe". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2012.

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• 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.

  Willem Dafoe

  People, Community, Stories

  Interview with Steven Hyden, film.avclub.com. September 25, 2007.

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