Willem Dafoe Quotes
I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I love to push myself.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I'm a natural blonde!
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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I love my right-wing friends, my practical friends, my bleeding heart friends - without all of these viewpoints, life would be pretty boring.
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I like ground and pound; I don't know if it is like a technique or discipline. I like to be on the ground, but I don't necessarily go for submissions or anything.
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After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, where I was fortunate to be exposed to clinical and medical issues, I enrolled to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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I think somewhere in the '90s, it started to shift, and you started to see a lot of film and television actors doing theater, and producers using the notoriety of the film and television actors to sell tickets.
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On the plane home I remember thinking that I am who I am because I have faith in myself, and it has always been the possibility of emotionally rewarding the experiences that has encouraged me to gamble on myself; those experiences have made all that I do worthwhile.
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I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.
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The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
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I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.
