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Willem Dafoe Quotes

«One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And when I look at the roles I've played, I'm kind of amazed at all the wonderful adventures I've had and the different things I've learned.»
Author: Willem Dafoe
«I've been a prisoner and lived in prison for a while; I've been a missionary in China; I've been a vampire and a priest in Poland in World War II. I guess without bragging or being too prideful about it I'm excited when I look back at these things that I've done. I've had lots of wonderful opportunities.»
Author: Willem Dafoe
«Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.»
Author: Willem Dafoe
«One of the pleasures of going to the movies for me is quite simply to see new ways, to think about broader ways or to challenge something as a given. It's usually people from outside, from the margins, that have the voice that inspires me.»
Author: Willem Dafoe
«[I] lie like the truth.»
Author: Willem Dafoe
«his approach to filmmakers and serving his stories.»
Author: Willem Dafoe
«some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that depends on the role.»
Author: Willem Dafoe
«The aesthetic is not that we're taking a hand-held camera and we're just letting it roll and doing our thing, ... Before It Had a Name.»
Author: Willem Dafoe
«Unless it's a down-and-dirty little film ... you have to strike that balance between having it rooted and having the people not fall out of it,»
Author: Willem Dafoe
«It's really a story that makes as much fun of the body politic as any particular politicians. It makes fun of how we got to this place where there's a lot of politics in entertainment and a lot of entertainment in politics.»
Author: Willem Dafoe