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Willem Dafoe Quotes

I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: July 22, 1955

Topics

Character Yourself You Lose Play

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

Jessica Chastain

Thinking Feeling Try She Fail Big

Too often a story is examined through biased eyes, without a sensitivity for everyone who forged it. It's seen from the point of view of the great white savior, and rarely is the perspective of the slave a part.

Eyes Great Perspective Story View

I think a lot of nice things happen when you're driving, or when you're on a plane, or whatever. There's a certain freedom that comes along with motion.

Freedom Think Driving You Nice

I would never have changed anything in the past. I have been acting for 32 years now and I feel so lucky to be able to have done exactly what I wanted to do.

Past Feel Acting Done Lucky Never

I don't believe in carbon offsetting. Planting 60 trees so you don't have to say your Hail Marys that night? It's a crock.

Night Believe Trees You Say Your

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time I see any work of art really beautifully done, like Michelangelo's 'The David' or that movie 'Lost in Translation' - it inspires me to try and find my own version of that.

Work Beautiful Time Art Me You

Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.

Funny Man Dignity Only Therefore

How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Child People Better Wrong Say Ask

My work in general involves getting over my fears that are deeply embedded since childhood: Fear of darkness, fear of dangerous activities in general, and fear of dirt - I had a considerable obsessive compulsive disorder as a child.

Work Fear Darkness Childhood Child

I think Hannah gets nervous just like any other person would. She's like a dork, personally. She's just really, really fun.

Fun Think Person Nervous She Just

I hate rodents. I cannot stand rodents. I couldn't even watch 'Ratatouille,' which is an animated film.

Hate Stand Watch Film Cannot Even

Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative context; everything is just perfect, and something magical happens - the film breaks through the screen and does something to you.

Music Moments You Perfect Movies

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