Willem Dafoe Quotes
Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
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The thing that I'm most passionate about, I'm writing a book called 'Jab Jab Jab Jab Jab Right Hook,' and it really focuses on how to story-tell in a noisy, ADD world.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No.
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I seriously do not think Nirvana is grunge.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
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Truth never damages a cause that is just.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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Looking at the way the game is played, I'm envious of the conditions. We played on some ropey World Cup surfaces. I genuinely never look back and wish I earned the money they do today, but I do think of that element.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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I'm not afraid of change, let's put it that way.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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Why should I crowd the world with my opinions? Live and let live. That's it. Let people have their own opinions, and you just keep yours to yourself. There are too many opinions - some unnecessary, some great, some ridiculously stupid - so I think I rather not say anything and keep my opinions to myself.
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Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.
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I got so far away from what they told you in acting class: Do something different. Producers kept offering me the 'Sister Act' movie, but I said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.' I literally said, 'My fans don't want to see me in a wimple.'
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Why do they want to disarm the people? Well, they want to disarm the people on the assumption that we are not responsible enough to be trusted with the means to defend ourselves-regardless of the truth that our Founders thought that this is an essential prerequisite and precondition of liberty.
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Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.
