Christoph Waltz Quotes

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Christoph Waltz

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 4, 1956

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

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Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

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Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.

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Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.

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Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

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I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

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Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

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My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

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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.

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It took me a lot of times watching it that I started to appreciate 'Pulp Fiction.'

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I'm trying to be very aware of not repeating myself.

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I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

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Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she wants. Humans need to be shrunk again to their actual size.

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As a motivation in itself, celebrity is foolhardy and stupid.

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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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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.

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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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You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

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'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies.

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There is one thing I do miss in L.A. I love autumn.

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