Willem Dafoe Quotes

When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.

Willem Dafoe

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

VisionMyselfMeStrongPlacesNeed

I can clean my own house. Now, maybe a couple of times a year we have a cleaning crew come in before we have a party, but otherwise, I'm able to maintain it myself.

Jen Lancaster

MyselfYearHouseI CanPartyNow

When I'm writing a song, I'm just making stuff up as I go along.

John Darnielle

WritingSongGoUpAlongStuff

Mary Lasker was an entrepreneur; she was a socialite. She was kind of a legendary networker. She became interested in saying, 'Well, you know, if these diseases don't have political support we'll never conquer them.' And she made, really, cancer her special cause.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

SupportSayingConquerPoliticalYou

The French Revolution ends slavery unilaterally. And it does so at this moment when the British, the Spanish, the Portuguese and the Americans - all of the other major powers - keep slavery. And the fact is that it's almost bankrupting the French Colonial Empire.

Tom Reiss

MomentSlaveryRevolutionEmpire

Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, 'We hear you're working on a big story,' sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.

Ronan Farrow

StoryYouSaidTouchHeightBig

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

Mike Huckabee

OpportunityPeopleExpectationsRise

My mother, at sixty, is one of those classic beauties: all neck and cheekbones, sharp lines that hide her wrinkles from a distance. She still gets whistles from construction workers from three stories up.

Lisa Lutz

MotherConstructionWrinklesHide

Now, as an astronaut, I have to bring a Sharpie with me everywhere - so I have a pen to sign autographs.

Chris Hadfield

MePenNowBringSignEverywhere

Anyone who wants to run has to be a Jimmy Swaggart, minus the default.

Chevy Chase

RunWhoWantsDefaultAnyoneMinus

All I ever wanted to do was play football. I was never one for revising, and I only left school with three O Levels.

Bradley Walsh

FootballSchoolPlayThreeNever

I want someone who can respectfully challenge me. I know what I believe, so there's no point in my taking on a relationship with someone who thinks like me or laughs at what I laugh at. I enjoy being with someone who can offer me the opposite.

Arielle Kebbel

RelationshipChallengeMeBelieve

It's always fun to come in and mix up a show that's been on for awhile.

Annie Wersching

FunAlwaysUpShowComeBeen

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