Willem Dafoe movie quotes

“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

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

“I paint with my qualities and faults.”
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

“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.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“I feel God is nature and nature is beauty.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“I've spent all my life alone, in a room. I need to go out and work to forget myself. I want to be out of control. I need to be in a feverish state. It's called the act of painting for a reason.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“- Doctor Felix Ray: What do you paint?
- Vincent van Gogh: Sunlight.”
Vladimir Consigny - Doctor Felix Ray
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

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".
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“Without painting, I don't think I can live.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“These flowers will wither and fade. All flowers do. But mine will resist. At least they'll have a chance.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“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

“I'd like to find a new light. A new light for paintings we haven't yet seen.”
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“- Madman: Are all painters crazy?
- Vincent van Gogh: Only the great ones.”
Niels Arestrup - Madman
Willem Dafoe - Vincent van Gogh

“- William: I've been left for dead twice... it was bad luck.
- Ballard: For who?
- William: The people who left me!”
Matt Damon - William
Willem Dafoe - Ballard

“- Gerhard Hardman: It is out of respect for both that I like to keep them separated. To mix your red wine and your white would be to ruin them both.
- Miss Mary Debenham: [pouring her red wine into her white] I like a good rosé.”

Willem Dafoe - Gerhard Hardman
Daisy Ridley - Miss Mary Debenham

“Join me! Imagine what we could accomplish together... what we could create. Or we could destroy! Cause the deaths of countless innocents in selfish battle again and again and again until we're both dead! Is that what you want? Think about it, hero!”

Willem Dafoe - Green Goblin

“You know, I sure do like a girl with nice tits like yours who talks tough and looks like she can fuck like a bunny. Do you fuck like that? Because if you do, I'll fuck you good. Like a big old jackrabbit bunny, jump all around that hole. Bobby Peru doesn't come up for air.”
Willem Dafoe - Bobby Peru

“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.”

Willem Dafoe - General George Deckert

“- 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

“- 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.”

Willem Dafoe - Gas
Jude Law - Ted Pikul

“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)
Willem Dafoe - Jesus

“Pop was okay but out of it. Worse than usual, maybe, but no drunker than usual.”

Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse