Dafoe Actor Quotes

#1. 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.

Willem Dafoe

#2. 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.

Willem Dafoe

#3. I am a woman with a foot in both worlds; and I refuse the split. I feel the necessity for dialogue. Sometimes I feel it urgently.

Cherrie Moraga

#4. 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.

Willem Dafoe

#5. Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you.

Willem Dafoe

#6. Choosing to be God-like does not mean you choose to be a martyr. And it certainly does not mean you choose to be a victim.

Neale Donald Walsch

#7. It's no fun for an actor to keep repeating what you did before. It's always changing. I'm changing. The target keeps moving. That's the beauty of it.

Willem Dafoe

#8. The discovery I announce to the public is one of the small number which, by their principles, their results, and the beneficial influence which they exert upon the arts, are counted among the most useful and extraordinary inventions.

Louis Daguerre

#9. I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.

Sarah Brightman

#10. Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Mark Twain

#11. The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready.

Willem Dafoe

#12. Central to being an actor is pretending, and the adventure of it all. That's why you become a junkie for different kinds of situations.

Willem Dafoe