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With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
— Willem Dafoe
The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
— Willem Dafoe
Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
— Willem Dafoe
Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
— Willem Dafoe
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
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.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.
— Denis Leary
I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
— Willem Dafoe
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
The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing.
— Willem Dafoe
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
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
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
I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
— Willem Dafoe
Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.
— Willem Dafoe
I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.
— Willem Dafoe
I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe is a shithead.
— Doug Benson
There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
— Willem Dafoe
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
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
— Willem Dafoe
If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
— Dana Delany
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.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
— Willem Dafoe
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.
— Willem Dafoe
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