Willem Dafoe Quotes

As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

Willem Dafoe

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• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
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• Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.

  

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• People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

  

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• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

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• If you're a competitive person, that stays with you. You don't stop. You always look over your shoulder.

  

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• I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

  

  Valerie Cruz
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• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Long
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• The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
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• I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.

  

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• We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Live
  • Family
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• There are a couple people who have complained on other teams about some of the things that Pittsburgh players have done. Some of that goes in the category of gamesmanship. Some of that goes to the fact that we need to be vigilant as a league to make sure that players aren't unnecessarily and inappropriately hurt.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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  • Great
  • Age

• I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

  

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• It's quite nice to have a bit more color on the lips during wintertime. And it's festive, isn't it?

  

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• Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.

  

  Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
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• The scholar, the teacher, the intellectual, have a higher duty than any of the others, for society has trained you to think as well as do.

  

  John F. Kennedy
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• At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'

  

  Lana Parrilla
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• Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the branches sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Sweet
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• As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Character
  • Suffering
  • Fool