Willem Dafoe Quotes
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 lose the thread of the character.

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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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Charter opponents often try to delegitimize strong testing results like those in Boston by attributing them to excessive test prep - as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio did recently.
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I look formidable.
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I love India.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, whether it be a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, the first 72 hours are going to be totally chaotic no matter what you plan to do.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.
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I want to come and play in cities and states where transgender citizens are not discriminated against, where there's no hateful bathroom bills at the shows where I'm going to be playing.
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This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.
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I don't feel naked around you anymore.
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Theatrical work means too much work or none.
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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 lose the thread of the character.