167 Quotes by Willem Dafoe

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.

If you get stuck and it feels a little stiff, then you do have to mess it up to find it. But other times it's really written and you just stick to your guns and do it as elegantly and as concentrated and as committed as you can.

I think on some level, you do your best things when you're a little off-balance, a little scared. You've got to work from mystery, from wonder, from not knowing.

All the time, as an actor, you want to be asking what's next and where things are going. If you're not asking those questions, you're not growing.

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story.

Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies.

I am confident only when I am constantly in motion. Between projects, the doubt creeps in.

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me.