Willem Dafoe Quotes

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.

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• We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Relation
  • Arts
  • Sciences

• Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Life
  • Work
  • Feeling

• There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.

  

  La India
  • Know
  • Human
  • I Can

• It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.

  

  Dan Colen
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• I've spent a lot of time being bohemian and sleeping on floors, but eventually I want to have kids and I want to bring them up in a secure environment.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• Look back, and smile on perils past.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Past
  • Look
  • Smile

• The great thing about life - I'd rather not know and just hope I'm happy and healthy and I feel as good about my life as I do now.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Religious
  • Compassion
  • Ego

• Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Broken
  • Bread

• We don't really think that much about what we do; it's just fun.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Just

• Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Early

• I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Drama
  • Laugh

• If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • Country
  • Power
  • History

• You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Want
  • Know
  • Government

• Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • Mother
  • Model
  • Independent

• I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Effort
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • People
  • Movie
  • House

• This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • World
  • Different
  • Science

• You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.

  

  Elizabeth Moon
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I love doing 'The Price is Right.' It's so much fun. I love meeting everybody and giving out prizes, especially when it's not my money. It's really a happy place, and everybody is all jazzed up.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Up
  • Money
  • Happy

• I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

  

  Maxine Peake
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Why

• Of course, I peed my pants, everyone my age pees their pants. It's the coolest.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Age
  • Courses
  • Pants

• I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Comedy
  • Feels
  • Made