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Work Quotes by Willem Dafoe
- Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.
- 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…
- 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…
- Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
- 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…
- I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the first time - with a beginner's mind and an…
- When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to…
More Work Quotes
- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit. — Aristotle
- Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. — Aristotle
- All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- The end of labor is to gain leisure. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach