Willem Dafoe Quotes

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• I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I never act. I simply bring out the real animal that's in me.
• You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
• One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles…
• The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
• The director's very important to me, particularly when the director has a recognizable style.
• There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.
• Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
• 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…
• 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…
• A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression…
• Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well…
• I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's…
• I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…

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