Top 100 Quotes About Willem
#1. To no one, he knew, not even to Willem. But he'd had years to learn how to keep his thoughts to himself; unlike his friends, he had learned not to share evidence of his oddities as a way to distinguish himself from others, although he was happy and proud that they shared theirs with him
Hanya Yanagihara
#2. Willem, I suspect deep down you know exactly why you're here, exactly what you want, but you're unwilling to the wanting, let alone the having. Because both of those propositions are terrifying.
Gayle Forman
#3. I realize it's not just Willem I'm looking for; it's Lulu too.
Gayle Forman
#4. Abstract Expressionism - the first American movement to have a worldwide influence - was remarkably short-lived: It heated up after World War II and was all but done for by 1960 (although visit any art school today and you'll find a would-be Willem de Kooning).
Jerry Saltz
#5. When Allyson smiles, Willem is reminded of a sunrise. A bit of light, then more of it, then a burst of brightness. A sunrise is something you can see all the time and still marvel at. Maybe that is why her smile feels so familiar. He has seen many sunrises
Gayle Forman
#6. I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch name, very common in the Netherlands.
Willem Dafoe
#7. Backstage, Willem is thinking about accidents again. And things that seemingly don't make sense, except they do. Like right out there in the fifth row. All of them, together. That makes sense.
Gayle Forman
#8. Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent.
Franz Kafka
#9. Who, in 2007, would have thought that a drawing by Willem De Kooning would be a safer asset than shares in Lehman Brothers? By autumn 2008, this would clearly be the case.
Sarah Thornton
#10. Willem tsk-tsks. You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.
Gayle Forman
#11. I'm also starting to wonder something else. If maybe the point of this crazy quest I'm on wasn't to help me find Willem. Maybe it was to help me find someone else entirely.
Gayle Forman
#12. Willem Dafoe and I are actually the same person.
Denis Leary
#13. It was just one day and it's been just one year. But maybe one day is enough. Maybe one hour is enough. Maybe time has nothing at all to do with it. Willem
Gayle Forman
#14. It was, he and Willem agreed, one of the best letters they'd ever read.
Hanya Yanagihara
#15. Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.
Kelly Wearstler
#16. Because that day with Willem, I may have pretended to be someone named Lulu, but I had never been more honest in my life.
Maybe that's the thing with liberation. It comes at a price.
Gayle Forman
#17. I love you this much in whole world,' Curtis said, throwing his chubby arms out wide. Willem grinned, wishing all love was so easy to find.
Andy Frankham-Allen
#18. Great actors like Willem Dafoe and Ellen Page and Samuel L. Jackson will go and do a videogame, because they understand that storytelling isn't just necessarily about filmmaking.
Andy Serkis
#19. Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
Jerry Saltz
#20. And that's when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I'm still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he's in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.
Gayle Forman
#21. Gracie, you are exactly where you are supposed to be and everything is going to be all right.
Willem
Lisa C. Temple
#22. Willem holds my wrist for a long moment, looking at that birthmark. Then he lifts it to his mouth. And though his lips are soft and his kiss is gentle, it feels like a knife jamming into the electrical socket. It feels like the moment when I go live
Gayle Forman
#23. If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else.
Dana Delany
#24. Pg 685 And so home he goes, and he waits and waits for Willem to appear to him. But he doesn't, and finally he sleeps.
Hanya Yanagihara
#25. Willem had tried to approach the subject through various directions - through stories of friends and acquaintances, some named, some not (he had to assume some of these people were creations, as surely no one person could have such a vast collection of sexually abused friends).
Hanya Yanagihara
#26. Pg 679 and he goes slowly to the wall behind the painting and sees its title;
WILLEM LISTENING TO JUDE TELL A STORY, GREENE STREET
... and he feels his breath abandon him
Hanya Yanagihara
#27. Willem has just glanced at the birthmark on Allyson's wrist, giving him an urgent desire to taste it again. Between her feet and her wrist, he is having a hard time getting out the door.
Gayle Forman
#28. Regin slapped her knees. "Oh, my gods, look at him running like his life depended on catching us." She slid open the door. "Is this straight outta Platoon, or what? Willem!" she cried, holding out one hand. "Run, Willem!" Then she choked on her laughter.
Kresley Cole
#29. He had been able to convince himself that he was someone else, someone happier, someone freer and braver. But now Willem is gone, and he is again who he was twenty, thirty, forty years ago.
Hanya Yanagihara
#30. but he had seen lots of women behave this way around Willem. They all had. Their friend Lionel used to say that Willem must have been a fisherman in a past life, because he couldn't help but attract pussy.
Hanya Yanagihara
#31. (The sight of her bare feet. What this is doing to Willem's blood pressure. She might as well have taken off all her clothes.)
Gayle Forman
#32. He placed his hand on Willem's arm. 'Willem, don't cry.'
'I'm not going to,' he said. 'I can do other things in life besides cry, you know,' although he was no longer sure that was even true.
Hanya Yanagihara
#33. Are you famous in India?" Allyson asks.
"I am Brad Pitt in India" Willem says.
Gayle Forman
#34. It was precisely these scenes he missed the most from his own life with Willem, the forgettable, in-between moments in which nothing seemed to be happening but whose absence was singularly unfillable.
Hanya Yanagihara
#36. I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.
Hanya Yanagihara
#37. Allyson sees Willem's face, his panic, and she knows he is misreading her. But she is helpless to explain right now. Words have left her. She is emotion only.
Gayle Forman
#38. Opposite Willem that afternoon is a Thom Gunn poem: "Their relationship consisted / In discussing if it existed." Underneath, someone has written in black market, "Dont worry man I cant get no pussy either.
Hanya Yanagihara
#39. I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that
Gayle Forman
#40. You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent.
Franz Kafka
#41. They all - Malcolm with his houses, Willem with his girlfriends, JB with his paints, he with his razors - sought comfort, something that was theirs alone, something to hold off the terrifying largeness, the impossibility, of the world, of the relentlessness of its minutes, its hours, its days.
Hanya Yanagihara
#42. Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?
Gayle Forman
#43. If the only tool in Willem's arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two virgins and a couple of camels.
Lisa C. Temple
#44. In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.
Willem Dafoe
#45. Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction.
Willem Dafoe
#46. 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
#47. I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.
Willem De Kooning
#48. I love doing action and stuff; the problem is usually action movies are not that interesting. Also as I get older I feel like there's less opportunities for me.
Willem Dafoe
#49. I feel like it's important to be flexible, particularly when I'm coming in late in the game and I'm connective tissue in the story. I'm not at the very center. It's important for me to have a certain kind of flexibility and try to help people do what they need to do.
Willem Dafoe
#50. It's really absurd to make ... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it ... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.
Willem De Kooning
#51. I do know that I like to play characters that are sometimes a little on the outside - that's because it feels kind of romantic and sexier to me. I really think they are the people that we learn lessons from.
Willem Dafoe
#52. In films you do a scene, you play around with it and unless you're doing a lot of reshooting, which no one has the luxury to do, you deal with the problem for a day and then you move on. On some level, it never allows you to go very deep into what performing is about.
Willem Dafoe
#54. Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.
Willem De Kooning
#55. 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.
Willem Dafoe
#56. High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#57. What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.
Willem De Kooning
#58. Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.
Willem Dafoe
#59. I'm an optimist. I hope if a movie's good that it will be a success, but as we know, that's not always true, just because of popular taste, advertising, distribution patterns - there's lots of reasons.
Willem Dafoe
#60. The real difficulty for smaller films, when they're made independently and it's time to go for a distributor, sometimes if it's a tough film and the people who financed it need their money back right away, it's much easier and lucrative to take a DVD deal.
Willem Dafoe
#61. This world needs Utopias as it needs fairy stories. It does not matter so much where we are going, as long as we are making consciously for some definite goal. And a Utopia, however strange or fanciful, is the only possible beacon upon the uncharted seas of the distant future.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#62. Perhaps, as with advancing age, the physical life becomes less important and yet, paradoxically, more precious, this green revolution against the temporary death of winter is a reminder that the earth, like our own lives, is a gift.
Willem Lange
#63. Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#64. Yes, I am influenced by everbody. But every time I put my hands in my pockets I find someone else's fingers there.
Willem De Kooning
#66. The truth is I like the crazy ones better than the well-behaved ones normally because they tend to be the passionate ones. They never come after you if you're holding up your end. The only thing that's bad about an abusive director is that they bully the people they can.
Willem Dafoe
#67. My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working. I had five sisters and a brother. They didn't care what I got up to.
Willem Dafoe
#68. History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#69. Ieder orgasme is een kleine echo van de oerknal; geen wonder dat sex van alle tijden is.
(Translated into English: 'Every orgasm is a little echo of the Big Bang; no wonder sex is of all times.' )
Willem Van Batenburg
#70. An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem De Kooning
#72. I see the canvas and I begin ... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.
Willem De Kooning
#73. 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
#74. I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..
Willem De Kooning
#75. The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
Willem De Kooning
#76. I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.
Willem Dafoe
#77. Peace does not fare well where poverty and deprivation reign. It does not flourish where there is ignorance and a lack of education and information.
Frederik Willem De Klerk
#79. 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.
Willem Dafoe
#80. I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
Willem De Kooning
#81. Sometimes you make very interesting movies that aren't meant for everybody. But this is a capitalist society, so everything conspires to put value on whether it sells or not.
Willem Dafoe
#82. 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.
Willem Dafoe
#83. I try to do as many of my own stunts as possible. If you keep on taking yourself out of the role you play, you lose the thread of the character.
Willem Dafoe
#84. In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#85. I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.
Willem Dafoe
#86. An artist is someone who makes art ... He didn't invent it ...
Willem De Kooning
#87. When I was a kid I was very interested in the idea of the will, finding out what you're capable of. I liked those kind of challenges.
Willem Dafoe
#88. Film is fragmented and gets into lots of other people's hands. There are a lot of pleasures that theatre gives me. You get to perform uninterrupted.
Willem Dafoe
#89. My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself.
Gayle Forman
#90. Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it.
Willem Dafoe
#91. Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.
Willem Dafoe
#92. Self-regulation stands in relation to regulation the way self-importance stands in relation to importance.
Willem Buiter
#93. 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.
Willem Dafoe
#94. Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns.
Willem De Kooning
#95. 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.
Willem Dafoe
#97. I'm learning in my old age that the only thing you can do to keep your sanity is to stay in the moment.
Willem Dafoe
#98. On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#99. What's the big story?" he asks.
"We're slacker playboys with trust funds, renting a house on Isla Mujeres."
"So, aside from the house, you're pretending to be you?
Gayle Forman
