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Willem Dafoe Quotes

The Midwest isn't somewhere you mix with those from the performing arts. But my mum and dad would go off to Chicago every so often to see shows. They would bring back the albums and the movies, those little eight metres, and we would all watch. I think that was when I fell in love with acting.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Think You Back Acting Movies

Most Americans want their government to be smaller, not larger; they want their taxes to be lower, not higher.

Government Want Taxes Most Higher

If a company is growing, then people's roles often grow and change, and opportunities abound.

Change People Opportunities Grow

Aging doesn't scare me at all. You can handle the bumps each year. They're traumatic when you're younger, and they're hurtful, and you go through some terrible times, and you feel terrible.

Aging Me Feel Year You Go

I'm not saying that I'm on some crusade to change people's minds. I'm just doing what I do. I'm a comedian, I'm trying to be funny... I think when they see a comedy show with an Iranian and an Egyptian and two Palestinians, I think they go, 'Oh wow, these guys are just like us.'

Funny Change People Saying Think Go

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the most segregated city in the country, and in a sense learning how to oppose the status quo was a question of survival.

Learning Time City Survival Early

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

Parents Action Know Important Role

Ever since 'Single White Female,' the 1990 novel which was turned into a supremely scary film, the idea of a seemingly normal woman who will stop at nothing to get what she wants has become an abiding literary trope.

Woman White Stop Nothing Become She

We all want to believe in the magic of someone knowing what we're thinking.

Believe Thinking Someone Magic Want

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

Travel World Thought Soccer Games

I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don't, but that's the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.

Sports Culture Flying Think American

In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

Bruce Beresford

Challenges You Too Much Watching

Don't try to squeeze into a glass slipper. Instead, shatter the glass ceiling.

Priyanka Chopra

Glass Try Ceiling Squeeze Shatter

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