"There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing."

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Source : "Willem Dafoe: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2012.

Willem Dafoe

“I'm tired and I'm sick to death of being without you.”
“Even though she's dealing with a scar, Emily just carries on with life. It's not a big deal. While we were shooting the scene, I tried it different ways. I tried it where I was hiding my face, and Chris [Weitz] was like, "Let's try it where she doesn't care," and that's who she is. She doesn't care what anybody else thinks.”
“I'd like to direct at some point. But I don't know because 10 years ago I would have never imagined that I'd be here. So in 10 years from now, I might be running a rodeo.”
“After studying in Sheffield, I went down to London to do my post-graduate degree at the National Film and Television School, embarking on the movie that would eventually become 'A Grand Day Out.”
“Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?”

Source : Twitter post from Sep 16, 2015
“A woman shouldn't heckle. In the public eye, you have to represent not only you but your spouse, too. You have to be a lady. She just has to sit there, clap, and look pretty.”
“Hockey is the only job I know where you get paid to have a nap on the day of the game.”
“There's only one way for a professional soldier to die. That's from the last bullet of the last battle of the last war.”

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