Willem Dafoe Quotes

If you don't want to be there, it shows in the energy that you put out and in your actions.

A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.

I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.

I don't want to express alienation. It isn't what I feel. I'm interested in various kinds of passionate engagement. All my work says be serious, be passionate, wake up.

I'm a firm believer in only getting involved in things you're passionate about.

You have to have your heart in the business and the business in your heart.

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something.

You always want to be part of something you're so passionate about.

When I'm not feeling something, I have a very hard time doing it.

What I don't like in my job is somebody who doesn't put forth the effort. Somebody who doesn't come to play every day.

It's hard for me to interact with players who don't give themselves completely. The weak don't interest me.

I love hard work, energy, feeling involved.

As a general rule, I am very passionate about any business that I engage in.

I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

You have to have a lot more dedication to what I'll call 'the machine,' ... I have 20 percent dedication. What's needed is 110 percent. You can't have it with the level of apathy I have.

Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.

If you love what you do, then you always find the time.

I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours.

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I was very, very eager to work. It's just the way I am.

The only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing.

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

I just hate people who are lazy. To be on my team, you have to have energy and a sense of wanting to learn. That really excites me.