Willem Dafoe movie quotes

“- Anderson: You know, if I were a Negro, I'd probably think the same way they do.
- Ward: If you were a Negro, nobody would give a damn what you thought.”
Gene Hackman - Anderson
Willem Dafoe - Ward

“In Italy, you get chickens, but no eggs. In Africa there were always eggs, but... never chickens. Who separated them?”
Willem Dafoe - Caravaggio

“- Ward: Some things are worth dying for.
- Anderson: Down here, things are different; here, they believe that some things are worth killing for.”
Willem Dafoe - Ward
Gene Hackman - Anderson

“Anyone's guilty who lets these things happens and pretends like it isn't. No, he was guilty all right. Just as guilty as the fanatics who pulled the trigger. Maybe we all are.”

Willem Dafoe - Ward

“Our stories, Wade's and mine, describe the lives of the boys and men for thousands of years: boys who were beaten by their fathers, whose capacity for love and trust was crippled almost at birth, men whose best hope for connection with other human beings lay in detachment, as if life was over.”
Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse

“- Deputy Pell: You got no right to be here. This is a political meeting.
- Ward: Doesn't smell that way to me, Deputy.
- Deputy Pell: It's a damn political meeting, Hoover Boy.
- Ward: Oh, it looks like a political meeting, but smells more like Klan to me... with or without the Halloween costumes.”
Brad Dourif - Deputy Pell
Willem Dafoe - Ward

“You will say that I should have known terrible things were about to happen. You will say that I was responsible. But even so, what could I have done by then? Wade lived on the edge of his emotions. He was always first to receive the brunt of our father's anger. He had no perspective to retreat to, even in a crisis.”
Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse

“- Spider-Man: I'm not like you. You're a murderer.
- Green Goblin: Well, to each his own. I chose my path, you chose the way of the hero. And they found you amusing for a while, the people of this city. But the one thing they love more than a hero is to see a herofail, fall, die trying. In spite of everything you've done for them, eventually...” (continue)(continue reading)
Tobey Maguire - Spider-Man
Willem Dafoe - Green Goblin

“- Paul Smecker: Brilliant. So now we got a huge guy theory, and a serial crusher theory. Top notch. What's your name?
- Detective Greenly: Detective Greenly. Who the fuck are you?
- Paul Smecker: That's who the fuck I am.”

Willem Dafoe - Paul Smecker
Bob Marley - Detective Greenly

“There's a lot of destruction and failure at the door of a successful picture. I find joy in sorrow. And sorrow is greater than laughter. You know, an angel is not far from those who are sad, and illness can sometimes heal us.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“- Thomas Wake: You’re drunk! You’re drunk!
- Ephraim Winslow: I’m drunk? I’m drunk?
- Thomas Wake: You heard me! Damn you!
- Ephraim Winslow: You’ve been drunk since I first laid eyes on you.”
Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake
Logan Hawkes - Ephraim Winslow

“Doldrums. Doldrums. Eviler than the Devil. Boredom makes men to villains, and the water goes quick, lad, vanished. The only med'cine is drink. Keeps them sailors happy, keeps 'em agreeable, keeps 'em calm.”
Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake

“- Ephraim Winslow: You ever married?
- Thomas Wake: Thirteen Christmases at sea, little ones at home. She never forgave it. Tis for the better.”
Logan Hawkes - Ephraim Winslow
Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake

“- Thomas Wake: You a praying man, Winslow?
- Ephraim Winslow: Not as often as I might. But I’m God fearing, if that’s what you’re asking.”
Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake
Logan Hawkes - Ephraim Winslow

“Should pale death, with treble dread, make the ocean caves our bed, God who hears the surges roll deign to save our suppliant soul.”
Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake

“I'm damn-well wedded to this here light, and she's been a finer, truer, quieter wife than any alive-blooded woman.”
Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake

“- Ephraim Winslow: Say, why is it bad luck to kill a gull?
- Thomas Wake: In 'em's the souls of sailors what met their maker.”
Logan Hawkes - Ephraim Winslow
Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake

“- Ephraim Winslow: What made your last keeper leave?
- Thomas Wake: He believed that there was some enchantment in the light. Went mad, he did.
- Ephraim Winslow: Tall tales.
- Thomas Wake: What?”
Logan Hawkes - Ephraim Winslow
Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake

“How long have we been on this rock? Five weeks? Two Days? Where are we? Help me to recollect!”

Willem Dafoe - Thomas Wake

“The ocean is not just our home, it is who we are.”
Willem Dafoe - Vulko

“- Young Arthur (13): I already know how to swim.
- Nuidis Vulko: Not even close. You have to forget all the teaching of the surface world, go deeper to discover your Atlantean instincts.”
Otis Dhanji - Young Arthur (Thirteen Years Old)
Willem Dafoe - Vulko

“- Vincent van Gogh: Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture.
- Paul Gauguin: Think about the surface that you're painting on and how the paint will sit on it. You're changing things so fast, you can't even see what you've done.
- Vincent van Gogh: Paintings have to be painted fast. The painters I like all paint fast in one clear gesture,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh
Oscar Isaac - Paul Gauguin

“I paint with my qualities and faults.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“Sometimes they say I'm mad, but a grain of madness is the best of art.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“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.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh