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“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.”
Source : "Dafoe Treads The Boards" by wenn.com, October 17, 2001.
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“One flower may slay the winter and meet death.”
Source : Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.63, New Directions Publishing
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“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”
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“I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.”
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“Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.”
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“I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.”
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“My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others who start wars. In short - and don't quote me, because this is an incomplete expression of a more complex premise - I believe blow jobs prevent war.”
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“Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”
Source : Myra MacPherson (2009). “Long Time Passing, New Edition: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation”, p.612, Indiana University Press
