Words matter. These are the best Christoph Waltz Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You know, I don’t support esoteric approaches to acting.
I only do what I like to do.
My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.
It’s not the number of trucks parked outside that make a movie interesting but if you have more money, you have more time. More time enables you to try out other possibilities or follow an interesting lead. I don’t like indulgence, but to have more possibilities is always more interesting.
By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what’s happening today.
Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.
I know from my experience in theater that the crowd is different every night; the reactions, the tension. But it’s true for film as well, going from country to country and culture to culture. The difference between California and New York responses, for example. It’s really fascinating.
Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that’s when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.
It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn’t play a part. Of course it does – that’s human nature.
I’ve done so many jobs because I’ve had to, not because I’ve wanted to. And it’s honourable to do a job because you need to feed your children, and maybe there is also something in it for your development as an actor. But only up to a point.
As a motivation in itself, celebrity is foolhardy and stupid.
Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.
I’m very bad with improvisation. I hate it.
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.
It’s easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.
You’re always being cast for what you’ve been in last.
The actor is there to translate what’s on the page onto the stage or the screen. So I find it important that an actor manages to actually get out of the way, vanish as a person behind the character, never to be seen or talked about again. That’s my philosophy.
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.
I think Stephen Sondheim is a – and I hardly ever use this word – but this is as close as it gets to a genius.
There is one thing I do miss in L.A. I love autumn.
It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.
Well, you need the villain. If you don’t have a villain, the good guy can stay home.
The fact that Facebook presents facial recognition programmes as a desirable development, well, that in itself is a decisive step toward fascism, as far as I’m concerned.
I am almost neurotically private myself. Because I think it’s an important distinction to make between privacy and public sphere.
I’m open to working anywhere, but not on anything.
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?
It took me a lot of times watching it that I started to appreciate ‘Pulp Fiction.’
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.
I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.
Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn’t if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that’s what life is like.
