Top 47 Christoph Waltz Quotes
#1. You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.
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#3. What I liked so much while shooting [a movie], I might not like anymore when I see it or vice versa. The two are connected but not on a causal level.
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#5. There are plenty of people over there who understand the difference. And there are plenty of people over here who understand the difference. It's still one world and it has been for a long time.
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#7. You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse.
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#8. I don't say things straight into the other person's face. I kind of like to make a joke or a remark and make it digestible or just give a little comment that voices my concern, but is not meant to be a critique, but just a comment so that he understands that I am thinking.
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#9. By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.
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#10. I worked next to an elephant. And considering that she could step on your toes, it's a good idea to keep a certain distance. It's also a good idea to befriend the trainer.
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#11. You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore.
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#12. I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
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#14. I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don't expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.
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#15. It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.
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#16. Comedy is the result of what's happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It's embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.
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#17. It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.
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#18. I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they're not within my world. Not because I feel that I'm above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?
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#19. I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
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#20. I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it's a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.
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#22. You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
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#23. Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.
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#24. One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy.
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#25. I'm not into weapons. I'm not into cars. I'm not into explosions. I'm scared of all of that.
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#26. Effortless [performance] and improvisation are two different things. Just because it's improvised doesn't mean it's effortless and just because it's effortless doesn't necessarily mean it's improvised.
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#27. It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.
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#28. For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.
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#29. I had to learn how to drive a cement truck because there is a whole car chase with cement trucks, so I had to learn how to drive a cement truck. I don't like these things, but I'm not an idiot. I can do it.
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#30. I think Stephen Sondheim is a - and I hardly ever use this word - but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
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#31. When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.
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#33. I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.
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#37. I'd sort of acquired somewhat more mature perspective on what my career is and I don't ... not anymore ... consider fame and fortune my career. I'm not a star. I'm an actor. So in a way, what I want to do as an actor, I would consider good for my career. Does that make sense?
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#38. Mine is studying script and being very academic and trying to be important.
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#39. I have my brain switched on and I might be thinking something else but we've come to an arrangement. That sort of play is maybe easier with someone who also thinks that way. But that is not necessarily a national thing, but maybe a little bit of a cultural thing.
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#40. It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.
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#41. Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you've toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can't get too much. I don't consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.
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#42. Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
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#43. Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
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#44. You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.
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#45. I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.'
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#47. Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It's not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.
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