Quotes from Willem Dafoe movies and TV shows

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

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.

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: 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: Nature is Satan's church.

She: A crying woman is a scheming woman.

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.

Rabbi: That is blasphemy.
Jesus: Didn't they tell you? I am the saint of blasphemy. Don't make any mistakes, I didn't come here to bring peace, I came to bring a sword.
Rabbi: Talking like that will get you killed.
Jesus: Me, killed? Listen to me. This temple will be torn down in three days, torn down to the ground.

Jesus: Today and tomorrow I cast out demons and work cures. On the third day, I will be perfected.

Judas: How will you ever pay for your sins?
Jesus: With my life, Judas. With my life. I don't have anything else.