Willem Dafoe Quotes
I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color.
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I am quite looking forward to working with Shah Rukh Khan.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it sounds cliched - you do come out the other side better and stronger.
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I went to film school and wanted to learn everything there was about making movies.
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The Loire Valley is grossly underestimated. The prices are fair, and the wines are real.
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If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions.
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Trying to take the credit for Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard, who had been at the club since they were eight. Can you believe it? I can't.
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We're all bozos on the bus, so might as well sit back and enjoy the ride.
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I worry about scientists discovering that lettuce has been fattening all along.
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I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.
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I don't worry so much about the audience. I want them very much to be involved and enjoy the movie, but I try to just inhabit the character in a full way, where I can create a personal stake.
