Willem Dafoe Quotes

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

I think that what I'm attracted to is people who are wild. But the self-destructive side comes out of the wild side. The wildness is very different from me. That's why I think I like it.

Take a walk on the wild side.

There's a certain road in life most people walk on, because it's familiar, and they can jostle to get in front place. I prefer to take a different road that's less crowded, with many forks, where you get a wider view of life. I call it 'the road less travelled'. That's where I want to be.

I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.

My definition of freedom is still ruled by the reluctance to live a conventional life, from Emilio Salgari's pirates.

Take the road less travelled.

Leave it to me as I find a way to be Consider me a satellite, forever orbiting I knew all the rules, but the rules did not know me Guaranteed

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

I think sometimes bad behaviour can be liberating for certain people. They need to behave badly to find themselves - to go off path to find their path. You see it with kids all the time: They're testing boundaries, and I think that's healthy.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.

There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

I've always been a risk taker; I've never believed in following the expected path.

I like doing things that are different, unexpected, and where I feel that either the role feels like a natural fit for me or it's a really big swing that I don't know if I'm going to connect on.

I was never a good student. I had to be dragged into kindergarten. It was hard to sit and listen to somebody talk. I wanted to be out, educated by experience and adventure, and I didn't know how to express that.

I love being a freak. It's great!

How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.

After a sheltered life, I went the other way. I wanted to prove how tough I was.