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I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
~ Willem Dafoe
Always
Any
Been
Close
Friends
Had
Important
Life
Male
Most
My Life
Never
Relationships
The Most Important
Women
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In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
~ Willem Dafoe
About
Around
Day
Deal
Deep
Doing
Films
Go
Level
Lot
Luxury
Move
Move On
Never
No-One
Performing
Play
Problem
Scene
Some
Then
Unless
Very
Which
You
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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.
~ Willem Dafoe
Experience
Gets
Hits
Just
Misunderstood
Movie
Press
Representation
Sometimes
Time
Wrong
Wrong Time
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In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.
~ Willem Dafoe
Character
Embrace
Got
Inhabit
Order
Them
You
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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.
~ Willem Dafoe
About
Being
Cry
Easily
Feminine
Get
Gravitate
Guy
Hear
His
Identify
Laugh
Makes
Me
More
More And More
Older
Side
Talking
Them
Touch
Towards
Very
Women
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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.
~ Willem Dafoe
Actor
Always
Beauty
Before
Changing
Did
Fun
Keep
Keeps
Moving
No Fun
Repeating
Target
You
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It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, because if you don't conventionally look a certain way and you've got a certain kind of presence when you're young, then what's available to you is character roles, and the best character roles when you're young tend to be villains.
~ Willem Dafoe
Available
Because
Beginning
Best
Certain
Certain Way
Character
Character Roles
Clear
Got
I Think
In The Beginning
Kind
Look
Playing
Presence
Pretty
Roles
Started
Tend
Then
Think
True
Villains
Way
You
Young
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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.
~ Willem Dafoe
Because
CDs
Could
Decision
Deserted
End
Hope
Island
Make
Me
Never
Take
Three
Up
Which
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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.
~ Willem Dafoe
Always
Brother
Care
Dad
Five
Got
Had
Mom
Nurse
Out
Sisters
Surgeon
Up
Were
Working
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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.
~ Willem Dafoe
Bad
Court
Crazy
Day
Distribution
Even
Films
Get
Good
Good Movies
Movies
Plenty
Some
Successful
Very
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Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
~ Willem Dafoe
About
Actor
Apply
Because
Being
Certain
Comfortable
Dancer
Doer
Feel
Happen
How
I Feel
Implied
Like
More
Out
Performer
Physically
Really
Say
Sometimes
Than
Then
Thing
Things
Word
You
Yourself
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Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy network may be oppressive to women, but it actually stunts men in terms of personal growth.
~ Willem Dafoe
Actually
Because
Develop
Growth
I Think
Lucky
May
Men
Network
Oppressive
Personal
Personal Growth
Sometimes
Stunts
Terms
Think
Ways
Women
Women Are
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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.
~ Willem Dafoe
Always
Certain
Directors
Doing
Frustration
Just
Like
Sometimes
Sort
Stories
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.
~ Willem Dafoe
About
Back
Bad
Bad Things
Balanced
Different
Different Parts
Exercises
Feeds
Film
Forth
Get
Go
Good
Good Things
I Can
I Love
Love
Muscles
Parts
Tell
Theatre
Things
Truth
Versa
Vice
Vice Versa
You
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The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
~ Willem Dafoe
Actor
Best
Flexible
Ready
Thing
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The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
~ Willem Dafoe
Director
Important
Me
Particularly
Recognizable
Style
Very
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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.
~ Willem Dafoe
About
Coming
Each
English
Me
Nurse
Our
Own
Patient
Problems
Resolution
Seeking
Together
Us
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The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.
~ Willem Dafoe
Acting
Albums
Arts
Back
Bring
Chicago
Dad
Eight
Every
Fell
Go
I Think
Little
Love
Midwest
Mix
Movies
Mum
Mum And Dad
Off
Often
Performing
Performing Arts
See
Shows
Somewhere
Think
Those
Watch
Would
You
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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
~ Willem Dafoe
Real
Saying
Thing
Wisdom
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Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
~ Willem Dafoe
Exchange
Festivals
Film
Generally
Ideas
Level
Like
Some
Somewhere
Truth
Truth Is
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22 July, 1955
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