Willem Dafoe Quotes

My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.

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• My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Morning

• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• I think my numbers speak for themselves.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Numbers

• Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Good
  • Know
  • Best

• I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Money
  • You
  • Find

• We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.

  

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson
  • Time
  • World
  • Fun

• Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• There are different reasons to make movies.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Different
  • Movies
  • Reasons

• Life is too short to blend in.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Life
  • Too
  • Life Is Too Short

• In high school and college, I did not have any Christian friends except my best friend Sarah, who I actually 'brought to Jesus.'

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • School
  • Friends
  • High

• I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Children
  • Man
  • Small

• I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

  

  T.I.
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  • Artist
  • Step

• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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  • Heaven
  • Idea

• After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Society
  • Rest

• When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Money
  • Question
  • Wife

• When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Men
  • Women
  • Black

• It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Nice
  • Kind
  • Sometimes

• I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Experience
  • Jesus
  • Angel

• My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Father
  • Fire
  • Lighting

• We have an immigration system in this country that not only doesn't work, in many cases it doesn't even make any sense.

  

  Kendrick Meek
  • Work
  • Country
  • Immigration

• My dad taught me how to fish. When I am stand in a trout stream now, and I have the waders on, and I've got a fly rod in my hand, or I am fishing for bass, I think of sitting in a boat with my dad. How can that be a bad experience?

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Dad

• My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Care