Willem Dafoe Quotes
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!'
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I certainly identify with the role of mentor and, to some degree, maybe teacher. I do a lot of work with kids at the Old Vic.
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interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end
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May the flop be with you.
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A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
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I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in.
