167 Quotes by Willem Dafoe

I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.

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.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time.

It makes me laugh when I hear a guy talking about being in touch with his feminine side. But I gravitate towards women; I identify with them. And I do cry very easily, more and more as I get older.

I love Sam Neill. The thing that I always say about him, and I think it's true, is he's so dry. When he's serious, I think he's joking; when he's joking, I think he's serious.

I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up!

The truth is, if you're around long enough, you have a story about everyone. But it's best to keep your mouth shut sometimes.

A lot of critics are lazy. They don't want to look closely and analyze something for what it is. They take a quick first impression and then rush to compare it to something they've seen before.