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You Quotes by Willem Dafoe
- 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…
- You have to lose yourself to find yourself.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really…
- 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…
- 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 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…
- Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.
- Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices…
- The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it…
- 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…
- When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to…
- Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
- With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide