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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.

~Willem Dafoe

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There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: July 22nd, 1955

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