Willem Dafoe Quotes
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 and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
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The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.
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When I decided to direct, never having done that before, is something I'm very proud of.
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The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.
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Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.
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On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from Australians, Israelis and the Swedes, who in turn are similar to each other and are different from Nigerians, Kenyans, and Jamaicans.
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Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.
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The weather is beautiful in Toulon and the girls are beautiful and I don't want to leave.
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I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
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Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.
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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 and they can make it beautiful. You don't really know.
