Willem Dafoe quotes
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I paint with my qualities and faults.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I paint, as a matter of fact, to stop thinking. I stop thinking, and I feel that I'm a part of everything outside and inside of me.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I'll show what I see to my human brothers who can't see it. It's a privilege. I can give them hope and consolation.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I feel God is nature and nature is beauty.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“- Doctor Felix Ray: What do you paint?
- Vincent van Gogh: Sunlight.” - From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
I think of myself as an exile, a pilgrim on this earth. Jesus said, "Turn your heart away from things visible and turn yourself to things invisible".
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“These flowers will wither and fade. All flowers do. But mine will resist. At least they'll have a chance.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“Without painting, I don't think I can live.”
- From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“- Madman: Are all painters crazy?
- Vincent van Gogh: Only the great ones.” - From the movie: At Eternity's Gate
“I'd like to find a new light. A new light for paintings we haven't yet seen.”
- From the movie: The Great Wall
“- William: I've been left for dead twice... it was bad luck.
- Ballard: For who?
- William: The people who left me!” - From the movie: Murder on the Orient Express
- From the movie: Spider-Man
- From the movie: Wild at Heart
- From the movie: xXx: State of the Union
“I don't know what's more pathetic - a man that plays chess with himself, or a man that doesn't see he's already lost.”
- From the movie: EXistenZ
“- Gas: I operated a gas station.
- Ted Pikul: You still operate a gas station, don't you?
- Gas: Only on the most pathetic level of reality.” - From the movie: The Last Temptation of Christ
“I'm afraid of everything. I never tell the truth. I don't have the courage. When I see a woman, I blush and look away. But inside I have lust. For God, I smother the lust, and that satisfies my pride. But my pride destroys Magdalene. I never steal or fight, or kill... not because I don't want to but because I'm afraid. I want to rebel against...” (continue)(continue reading)
- From the movie: Affliction
“Pop was okay but out of it. Worse than usual, maybe, but no drunker than usual.”
- From the movie: The Fault In Our Stars
“Pain demands to be felt.”
- From the movie: The Great Wall
“- William: We are honored, to be honored.
- Tovar: Is that the best you've got?” - From the movie: The Last Temptation of Christ
“- Jesus: I wish there was another way, but there isn't. I have to die on the cross.
- Judas: I won't let you die.
- Jesus: You don't have a choice. Neither do I. Remember, we're bringing God and man together. They'll never be together unless I die. I'm the sacrifice... Forget everything else, understand that.” - From the movie: Basquiat
“I'll be forty in July, and I'm glad I never got recognition. It gives me time to develop.”
- From the movie: Affliction
“This is the story of my older brother's strange criminal behaviour and disappearance. We who loved him no longer speak of Wade. It's as if he never existed.”
- From the movie: Spider-Man 2
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