Quotes from Willem Dafoe movies and TV shows

She: A crying woman is a scheming woman.

She: Nature is Satan's church.

He: I love you.
She: You don't.
He: I do.
She: I don't believe you. I don't believe you! I don't fucking believe you.

She: Oak trees grow to be hundreds of years old. They only have to produce one single tree every hundred years in order to propagate. May sound banal to you but it was a big thing for me to realise that when I was up here with Nic. The acorns fell on the roof vent. They kept falling and falling. And die and die. And I understood that everything that used to be beautiful about Eden was perhaps hideous. Now I could hear what I couldn't hear before. The cry of all the things that are to die.

He: Exposure. That's the only thing that works. Everything else is just talk. You have to have the courage to stay in the situation that frightens. And then you'll learn that fear isn't dangerous.

He: Nothing hurts more than to see the one that you love subjected to mistakes and wrongs.

John Carpenter: Do you know what time it is? It's fuck time.

Bob Crane: A day without sex.
John Carpenter: ...is a day wasted.

The Priest: Would they ever harm an innocent person for any reason?
Paul Smecker: No, they would never do that. Well, the two Irish guys wouldn't, the Italian guy, he might, he's kind of an idiot.

Paul Smecker: Oh, isn't that beautiful? All the lowlifes in quiet city Boston start dropping dead and *you* think it's unrelated! Greenly, the day I want the Boston Police to do my thinking for me, I will have a fucking tag on my toe!

Captain Ramirez: The chicken is in the pot, over.
Clark: Cook it.

Caravaggio: You're in love with him, aren't you? Your poor patient. You think he's a saint because of the way he looks? I don't think he is.
Hana: I'm not in love with him. I'm in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

Ted: What was your life like before?
Gas: Before?
Ted: Before it was changed by Allegra Geller.
Gas: I operated a gas station.
Ted: You still operate a gas station, don't you?
Gas: Only on the most pathetic level of reality.

Gas: God - the mechanic.

William: I've been left for dead twice... it was bad luck.
Ballard: For who?
William: The people who left me.

Tars Tarkas: You are ugly, but you are beautiful. And you fight like a Thark!

Tars Tarkas: When I saw you, I believed it was a sign... That something new can come into this world.

Jesus: I said Love! I didn't say Death.

Pontius Pilate: It's one thing to want to change the way people live... but you want to change how they think, how they feel.
Jesus: All I'm saying is that change will happen with love, not with killing.
Pontius Pilate: Either way, it's dangerous. It's against Rome. It's against the way the world is. And killing or loving, it's all the same. It simply doesn't matter how you want to change things. We don't want them changed.

Jesus: If I was a woodcutter, I'd cut. If I was a fire, I'd burn. But I'm a heart and I love. That's the only thing I can do.