Willem Dafoe Quotes

Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.

Willem Dafoe

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Face
  • Everybody
  • Villain

• I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.

  

  Aby Rosen
  • Art
  • Kids
  • Day

• Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Girl
  • Day
  • Child

• I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Critics
  • Reach
  • Regardless

• Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parkas, mukluks, footgear, and it is good to 60 degrees below zero. All I did was copy the patterns that came down from the Inuits.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Good
  • Better
  • Down

• People don't understand that all presidents, the minute they become president, get a knock at the door. And there's a man there saying, 'Let's talk about your funeral.' At the time I thought, God, that's a terrible thing. Later on, I thought it was pretty wise.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Play
  • Best
  • Video Games

• No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Corruption
  • Incidents

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• We must honestly face our relationship with Great Britain.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Face

• I need my fill of Indian home cooking.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Home
  • Need
  • Cooking

• If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Art
  • You

• When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Me

• I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • God
  • Religion
  • Greek

• Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Write

• Since Einstein developed his theory of relativity, and Rutherford and Bohr revolutionised physics, our picture of the world has radically changed.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • World
  • Picture
  • Physics

• I'm gazing at church and palace, ruin and column,Like a serious man making sensible use of a journey,But soon it will happen, and all will be one vast temple,Love's temple, receiving its new initiate.Though you're a whole world, Rome, still, without Love,The world isn't the world, and Rome can't be Rome.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • World
  • Church
  • Serious

• I'd been on the Internet since the 1970s when it was just for nerds. I started saying, 'Who would benefit from this?' I started imagining a world where young people could have their own email address, back in the days of family AOL accounts.

  

  Jay Samit
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• I would never want the show to be a Democrat show or Republican show, because for us the show's more important than that. It isn't for everybody else in the world, but it is for us.

  

  Matt Stone
  • World
  • Important

• He came into the world like a delivery that no one knew what to do with, and nobody wanted to sign for.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
  • World
  • Wanted
  • Delivery

• Performing is about developing empathy, which leads us to a broader view of the world and encourages us to develop compassion; so we can comfort each other and not be so brutal with each other.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • World
  • Compassion
  • Comfort