167 Quotes by Willem Dafoe

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it’s not about you.

I don’t want people to know anything about me, because that’s not important. I’m more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters.

Each of the actors is quite different, but they’re all living in the same world.

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses – which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character.

I’m a task-oriented actor. A pretender. And I try to invent my process anew each time I make a new project. So I frown on any method.

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I’m not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I’m the odd one out, the outsider.

Film is an editor’s medium. You can create very good raw material and they can make it horrible, or you can do not so well and they can make it beautiful. You don’t really know.

The bad things about theatre get balanced by the good things in film and vice versa. So to tell you the truth, I love it when I can go back and forth – it feeds different parts of you and exercises different muscles.

I knew very little about 'Spider-Man'. I grew up more in the 'Superman' generation. 'Spider-Man' - I didn't know so much. But it is a really successful franchise, and I'm happy to be involved with it.