Great theatre is about challenging how we think and encouraging us to fantasize about a world we aspire to.


Willem Dafoe

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, beca...
ANDY SERKIS
Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD
If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for ...
DANA DELANY
If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room ...
DANA DELANY
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.
JERRY SPINELLI
'Black Messiah' is a hell of a name for an album. It can easily be misunderstood. Many will ...
D'ANGELO
It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL
What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...

Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER
We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change ...
JEAN SMART
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because we ...
BRENDA BLETHYN
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and ...
SOCRATES
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and ...
SOCRATES
We all have day jobs and fantasize about being rock stars and alt-country stars.
DAVE BLOOM
Everyone the world over talks about British actors and British talent and I think that's because...
BRENDA BLETHYN
There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ...
CELESTINE L. GRAY
We do need to think about how we have security - everyone has a right to that - but we also need to ...
TRACY CHAPMAN
Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world toget...
JACQUELINE WOODSON
How to be Great;The moment you realize & accept the ordinary fact that those doing great things toda...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
How to be great;Think of a gigantic & unheard of idea to birth & nurture & inside it lies your great...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
ZAINAB SALBI
We need to change America's image round the world. America has lost some lustre in terms of how ...
SAMUEL L. JACKSON
We are the great danger. Psyche is the great danger. How important is to know something about it, bu...
C.G. JUNG
See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART
When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fa...
ALEXANDRA POTTER
Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actu...
SARAH DESSEN
The fantasies we have about how great others are is just about as real as the fantasies we have abou...
JIM GENOVESE
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to f...
DEEPAK CHOPRA
We think it's a great investment to make in our customers. We figure that this is great for people w...
LYN BLAKE
This program isn't about dieting. It's about healthy eating. We want to teach kids how to control th...
BRENDA VOSS
Some kind of philosophy undergirds every movie, commercial, lecture, or book. Everything we take int...
JON MORRISON
I think it's a big advantage for us. I think the experience is going to help us. We just need to tak...
ASHLEY DAVIS
Experience isn't as much about what happens to us as it is about how we react to what happens to us.
EDIE BAILEY
People can still fantasize, ... This is about lightheartedness and holiday spirit.
GINGER REEDER
This, in the end, is the prime purpose of a philosophy: to give us lucid ways to think about the wor...
DANIEL KLEIN
But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way ...
EDMOND ABOUT
It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the coun...
EDMOND ABOUT
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians,...
EDMOND ABOUT
I fight fairly, and in good faith.
EDMOND ABOUT
Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
EDMOND ABOUT
Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE
Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE
I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE
I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE
At about six in the morning of July 3, 1860, while I was watering my petunias, and thinking of noth...
EDMOND ABOUT
I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and ...
MARIO BATALI
Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.
RONALD ROLHEISER
What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less a...
AMY LEIGH MERCREE
35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON
What's disconcerting about it is how close we came to a disaster I don't think any of us realize is ...
ALICE HIRT
Our attitude is still great. Our work ethic is great. We aspire to make the playoffs, so we still ha...
DAN STARKEY
Humans have the ability to shift perspective. We can experience the world through our senses. Or we ...
JOHN J. EMERICK
You say: "My goal is to build a world-class company." Investor thinks: "How about you ship and sell ...
GUY KAWASAKI
Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week.
SANDRA BULLOCK
Moving our headquarters to Chicago is another significant step in our journey to build a better McDo...
STEVE EASTERBROOK
it is encouraging to hear that men of great ability themselves think that we have talent in our rank...
PELE
The whole theatre world deeply attracts me. I love rehearsing and having time to make mistakes and l...
MIRANDA OTTO
We actually had a Buddhist monk who traveled with us and told us about how Buddhism is related to th...
CAROLYN ROST
I don't know... there's something kind of beautiful about it, don't you think? That we keep living a...
ISAAC MARION
Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were alwa...
JOHN VARVATOS
Many people are not knowledgeable about Church history. They think St Patrick?s Day is about shamroc...
KAREN MATTHEWS
We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.
ETHEL BARRETT
Here's what you should say [to investor]: "This is what my company does..." It's that simple. What y...
GUY KAWASAKI
We're looking for survival here. This is us we're talking about, we really need to turn this around....
FENNER STEVENSON
How we think is so important. There has to be a time when we stop just dealing with life and think a...
RON BARATONO
I think goodness is about how person behaves to person, and also person to world, to nature.
VIKRAM SETH
I think it's the greatest form of art, to create a residential building, ... We often judge cities b...
DANIEL LIBESKIND
These days there is a lot of poverty in the world, and that's a scandal when we have so many ric...
POPE FRANCIS
Cyberspace is colonising what we used to think of as the real world. I think that our grandchildren ...
WILLIAM GIBSON
There is something to be said about the vastness of the earth, as well as the vastness of the heaven...
ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND
We are thrilled to be collaborating with Edward on this labor-of-love. They're a very daring company...
EDWARD NORTON
How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about oursel...
STEPHEN RICHARDS
What artists think about the world is often different from how we businessmen see it, and I find tha...
ELI BROAD
The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
We know a great deal more about what was stolen than we do about how it was stolen,
CHRISTOPHER COX
I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN
We are getting a lot of attention and love, which is very encouraging to us.
AHN SOO
We are getting a lot of attention and love, which is very encouraging to us.
AHN HYUN SOO
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER
We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
OLIN MILLER
Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us ...
CAROLYN MAHANEY
We are urging people across Greater Manchester to help us by reporting information about unattended ...
STEPHEN THOMAS
We have a lot of knowledge in Canada about how to make great ice.
CATHY ALLINGER
We have a lot of knowledge in Canada about how to make great ice.
CATHY PRIESTNER ALLINGER
We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom
ROXE
We want to think about it, see how much we miss it.
MEGAN WING
It's always a big deal whenever we have learning to do about how to appropriately care for the peopl...
BRIAN KNOWLES
Reality never changes; its how we think about it that determines how we feel about it.
JIM GENOVESE
In some ways, in the U.S. we don't know how to be. I think in a lot of ways America is about lib...
ABIGAIL WASHBURN
Good reputations can take years to earn but only seconds to destroy.
DANYELLE SIEBEN
I think the reason our mission work has grown is because of the 'prayer principle.' If we think we s...
BILL CAMP
If you think the world is full of darkness, let us see your light. If you think the world is full of...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
For us, this is about how many people we send to an incident. It's about keeping both the firefighte...
FIREFIGHTER DAVID CUMMINS
When I was a kid, the great debate was about how to defeat the Soviet Union. And we won. Now we are ...
PETER THIEL
The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we ha...
SHARI ARISON
I wanted to answer big questions about humanity, about how it is that we understand about the world,...
ALISON GOPNIK
Crime shapes how we think about the world; it shapes social decisions that we make; it shapes our ba...
BILL JAMES
All I could think about was losing. Every game we lose is like losing a championship game. That's ho...
CRAIG BRADSHAW
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre mu...
JIM DALE

More Willem Dafoe

The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.
WILLEM DAFOE
Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about bein...
WILLEM DAFOE
I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared...
WILLEM DAFOE
The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin ...
WILLEM DAFOE
Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action.
WILLEM DAFOE
It's true in the beginning I started playing villains, and I think that's pretty clear, beca...
WILLEM DAFOE
When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is anot...
WILLEM DAFOE
I set myself challenges every time I work. Ideally, I approach everything as though it's the fir...
WILLEM DAFOE
I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sor...
WILLEM DAFOE
I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.
WILLEM DAFOE
Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which t...
WILLEM DAFOE
A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is....
WILLEM DAFOE
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that...
WILLEM DAFOE
I'm a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a n...
WILLEM DAFOE
The aesthetic is not that we're taking a hand-held camera and we're just letting it roll and doing o...
WILLEM DAFOE
The mask can be a limitation, but you just deal with it. You do get superhuman strength and pumpkin ...
WILLEM DAFOE
Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that the...
WILLEM DAFOE
One of the pleasures of being an actor is quite simply taking a walk in someone else's shoes. And wh...
WILLEM DAFOE
[I] lie like the truth.
WILLEM DAFOE
some actors seek parts similar to their personalities. But, I prefer undergoing a metamorphosis that...
WILLEM DAFOE
Unless it's a down-and-dirty little film ... you have to strike that balance between having it roote...
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 v...
WILLEM DAFOE
I'm not attracted to naturalism, I'm not attracted to behavior, I'm attracted to dance. ...
WILLEM DAFOE
I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Wil...
WILLEM DAFOE
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself,...
WILLEM DAFOE
Sometimes I think women are lucky because they can develop in ways men can't. The old-boy networ...
WILLEM DAFOE
Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.
WILLEM DAFOE
I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself,...
WILLEM DAFOE
I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real lif...
WILLEM DAFOE
Film is an editor's medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible,...
WILLEM DAFOE
Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin.
WILLEM DAFOE
In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the w...
WILLEM DAFOE
I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense ...
WILLEM DAFOE
I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz s...
WILLEM DAFOE
Countries wishing to export sturgeon products ... must demonstrate that their proposed catch and exp...
WILLEM WIJNSTEKERS
What New England is, is a state of mind, a place where dry humor and perpetual disappointment blend ...
WILLEM LANGE
Springtime to me used to mean doing things - bicycling, fishing, canoeing. Now it seems more like th...
WILLEM LANGE
Today
BARBARA DAFOE WHITEHEAD
My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very s...
WILLEM DE KOONING
The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of...
WILLEM DE KOONING
Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
WILLEM DE KOONING
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.
WILLEM DE KOONING
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
WILLEM DE KOONING
In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a s...
WILLEM DE KOONING
Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas ...
WILLEM DE KOONING
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
WILLEM DE KOONING
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculou...
WILLEM DE KOONING
I don't paint to live, I live to paint.
WILLEM DE KOONING
Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would stop for awhile, take a trip, do things -- the ne...
WILLEM DE KOONING
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time
WILLEM DE KOONING
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
WILLEM DE KOONING
I will not let me tell me what to do I listen to what needs to be done
WILLEM VAN EEKELEN
I am because we are
WILLEM DE LIEFDE
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON
The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the...
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON
The history of the world is the record of man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON
On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never pa...
HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON
Yeah who hast no sense of humour hast an old soul
WILLEM ANDRIES STEFANUS GOUWS
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest for his daily bread and butter
HENDRICK WILLEM VAN LOON
Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh.
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS
Sometimes it just means flying from Bogota to New York via Amsterdam to have a day with your kids. W...
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS
I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors sta...
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS
I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'...
WILLEM-ALEXANDER OF THE NETHERLANDS