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Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content. — Willem De Kooning

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

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you. — Willem Dafoe

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will. — Willem De Kooning

Each of the actors is quite different, but they're all living in the same world. — Willem Dafoe

I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'm with them. — Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute. — Willem De Kooning

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work. — Willem Dafoe

It was, he and Willem agreed, one of the best letters they'd ever read. — Hanya Yanagihara

Corruption is something you face all the time. Avoid it. — Willem Dafoe

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood. — Willem Dafoe

You have to keep on the very edge of something, all the time, or the picture dies. — Willem De Kooning

Not even for a million dollars would I paint a tree. — Willem De Kooning

Action breeds inspiration more than inspiration breeds action. — Willem Dafoe

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. — Willem De Kooning

You have to lose yourself to find yourself. — Willem Dafoe

I have to change to stay the same. — Willem De Kooning

Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does. — Willem De Kooning

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

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter. — Willem De Kooning

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

Springtime to me used to mean doing things - bicycling, fishing, canoeing. Now it seems more like the fulfillment of a divine promise. — Willem Lange

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas. — Willem Dafoe

Look at this, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law and at the same time insists he's innocent. — Franz Kafka

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them. — Gayle Forman

Art should not have to be a certain way, — Willem De Kooning

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

Love is not something you protect. It's something you risk. — Gayle Forman

In art one idea is as good as another. — Willem De Kooning

Even an abstract form has to have a likeness. — Willem De Kooning

I am adrenaline slammed into inertia: a fast car stuck in traffic. — Gayle Forman

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness — Willem De Kooning

The best thing an actor can be is ready. Be flexible, be ready. — Willem Dafoe

As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart. — Willem Dafoe

I love theaters. I love the event of going there and seeing a movie with a lot of people. I like the community coming around the story. — Willem Dafoe

One has to divide attention between having kids and a full workload. — Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange

The past does not influence me; I influence it. — Willem De Kooning

Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight. — Willem De Kooning

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me. — Willem Dafoe

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

In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them. — Willem Dafoe

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know. — Willem De Kooning

You see, Willem, he admits he doesn't know the law, and at the same time claims he's innocent. — Franz Kafka

The worst thing is to get involved with people who aren't passionate about what they're doing. — Willem Dafoe

Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama,' I run in the opposite direction. — Willem Dafoe

I'm no different to anyone else; I want people to like me. I just don't particularly want them to understand me. — Willem Dafoe

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

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

History is the mighty tower of experience, which time has built amidst the endless fields of bygone ages. - Forward — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

I don't think people want to see me as a regular guy; besides, I'm a regular guy in real life. I guess I just want to be reckless in my work. — Willem Dafoe

I'll never be able to really see a film that I'm in. — Willem Dafoe

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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

Here in the Netherlands there are towns that take part in the throwing of toilet bowls for a laugh. — Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange

An ignorant person is, by the very fact of his or her ignorance, a very dangerous person. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Emotionally men and women are different, but only as a result of the physical differences. It all comes back to our bodies. — Willem Dafoe

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

Geology differs from physics, chemistry, and biology in that the possibilities for experiment are limited. — Reinout Willem Van Bemmelen

I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that — Gayle Forman

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

Are you famous in India?" Allyson asks.
"I am Brad Pitt in India" Willem says. — Gayle Forman

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

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

It's too easy to trivialize people. The Internet does it all the time. — Willem Dafoe

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

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing. — Willem Dafoe

Presently the newly awakened psychology will gradually accomplish what pure religious devotion might have done: throw out Paul, and let Jesus in! — Jan Willem Kaiser

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their columns. — Willem De Kooning

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Willem Dafoe is a shithead. — Doug Benson

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

I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate. — Willem Dafoe

Life means progress, and progress means suffering. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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

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

I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker. — Willem Dafoe

My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself. — Gayle Forman

I've been in very few flat-out comedies. But I feel like I've always made comedies. — Willem Dafoe

The problem with property is that it takes so much of your time. — Willem De Kooning

The artist fills space with an attitude. The attitude never comes from himself alone. — Willem De Kooning

I guess they often cast me as the bad guy, because I'm not, er, conventional looking. I look sort of violent. I'm the odd one out, the outsider. — Willem Dafoe

I don't paint to live, I live to paint. — Willem De Kooning

(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

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not. — Willem De Kooning

Any actor who tells you that he makes choices, absolutely, is wrong. You find work and work finds you. — Willem Dafoe

You can be intuitive when you've got a more expansive role. You can get into the poetry of telling the story rather than just pushing buttons. — Willem Dafoe

I realize it's not just Willem I'm looking for; it's Lulu too. — Gayle Forman

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

I was watching 'Wild at Heart,' and I can honestly say I did nothing for that apart from show up! — Willem Dafoe

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

I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art. — Willem De Kooning

I think back story can help guide your choices, but when you're playing a scene, you're not making choices; you're just intuitive. — Willem Dafoe

I don't want people to know anything about me, because that's not important. I'm more interested in the me that takes shape through the characters. — Willem Dafoe

I have no doubt that if I met Bob Dylan, it would be disappointing - and annoying to him. But that's why I like Bob Dylan. — Willem Dafoe

Gracie, you are exactly where you are supposed to be and everything is going to be all right.
Willem — Lisa C. Temple

Weirdness is not my game. I'm just a square boy from Wisconsin. — Willem Dafoe

I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape. — Willem De Kooning

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness. — Hendrik Willem Van Loon

If you put Willem Dafoe, Liam Neeson and James Woods in a room together, there wouldn't be room for anyone else. — Dana Delany