Top 25 Waltz Quotes

Christoph Waltz, you know, blew up in Hollywood at a very old age. He won two Oscars back-to-back so I thought, ‘You know what? Even if it happens when I’m 50, that’s fine.’ You know, I’ll always keep going, always keep trying.

My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doing.

The message films that try to be message films always fail. Likewise with documentaries. The documentaries that work best are the ones that eschew a simple message for an odd angle. I found that one of the most spectacular films about the Middle East was ‘Waltz With Bashir,’ or ‘The Gatekeepers,’ or ‘5 Broken Cameras.’

My mother played the piano and my father the violin, I can remember my dad teaching me how to waltz; I had my feet on his, my mother playing the piano, and my husband will tell you the lessons weren’t very successful.

With the waltz, especially the Viennese Waltz, it looks so beautiful and effortless and flows.

When I met Christophe Waltz, I was so shy! I was like, ‘Oh, hi! Um, I’m Stephanie!’ He’s one of my favorite actors.

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you’re in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

The waltz is a very important part of my life. It’s a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.

There’s a lot of different moods that come across in my shows. Even when I’m playing a slow waltz song, sometimes there’s crowd-surfing. Most of the time there’s a mosh pit.

Some days I would be there at ten in the morning and wouldn’t leave till ten at night, and the others would waltz in for a couple of hours and then leave, because I was doing that painting thing. And they were happy to see that being done.

Tus Ojitos’ is an incredible and romantic Peruvian waltz; I tried to make it appear that the heart is singing.

There’s something about the waltz in particular, where one person leads and the other follows, that helps you get in tune with each other.

My small experience on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ allowed me to slowly appreciate the Waltz and Viennese Waltz, but to see it in Vienna is something much different.

I wrote and directed a movie called ‘Two – Bit Waltz’. We just wrapped. It was a blast, blast, blast.

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

Why waltz with a guy for 10 rounds if you can knock him out in one?

There’s nothing like rehearsing a waltz to a Stormzy track. It’s hard to compare it to anything!

Twerking takes its place in a long line of dance moves deemed immoral, even apocalyptic. The waltz was called sinful because it demanded dangerously close contact between dance partners. In 1914, the tango earned a papal denunciation for being ‘damaging to the soul.’

For years after ‘The Last Waltz,’ I got all kinds of silly movie offers – or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling… lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

I love learning things, whether it’s a language or Philippine knife-fighting or the Viennese waltz.

I did a dance with Fred Astaire in the movie ‘Bandwagon.’ I got to waltz just from left of camera to right of camera, and I’m taller than Fred Astaire. Fortunately, I was wearing a long skirt, so I waltzed with bended knees.

In New York you go to the coffee shop, have a bagel, walk down the street, get hassled, run into someone else. People just waltz into your world and it’s believable.

Where would I be without Johann Strauss’s beautiful ‘Blue Danube?’ Without this piece of music I wouldn’t be the man I am today. It’s a tune that brings out the emotion in everyone and makes them want to waltz.

It is my personality alone that has brought back the waltz and made it a global craze.

The truth is, I’ve been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.