Best Willem Dafoe Quotes
- Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin. Boy
- 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… Bad
- I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from… Balance
- 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… All
- Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action. Action
- 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… Actor
- Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you. Absolutely
- Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction. Direction
- Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you. Celebrity
- Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies. All
- 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… Film
- Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to. Aspire
- I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in. Confident
- I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me. Mainstream
- 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… Besides
- 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… Coming
- 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… Character
- I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up! Apart
- I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in. Able
- 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… Actor
- I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me. Anyone
- I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women. Any
- 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. Experience
- 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… Actor
- 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. Cds