Udo Kier Quotes

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Udo Kier

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 11, 1944

I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.

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I was in 'Iron Sky,' the first one, and I liked it very much. I liked the technology being used. The technology has such power.

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Rob Zombie's very intellectual-crazy, and I like people like that. No stupid craziness.

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I like 'Brawl in Cell Block 99.' I think Vince Vaughn is incredible and I've never seen Don Johnson like that. It is very realistic. Some people say it is a horror film. It is not a horror film at all. It is very realistic.

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I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.

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I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it's a horse. A horse is a horse.

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I have a ranch and when I sit there and see a little lizard and birds, I really love what I see and I'm love with nature.

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Werner Herzog, I knew him for so many years, when Fassbinder was at his highest moment. But we had a rule: An actor from Fassbinder could never work with an actor of Werner Herzog or Wim Wenders. Because if we would have done that, we would have been spies. 'Ah, you worked with Werner - how was it? How did he direct you?' I was Fassbinder's actor.

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I always wanted to make music but I cannot play any instrument.

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My great joy these days is giving palm trees water. Simple as that.

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My dream would be to play the villain in a James Bond movie, or opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like everything exaggerated.

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I like to work with directors who write their own stories.

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Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog: They all write, which is much better because it's their baby, and they know what they want.

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I collect chairs and lights, which obviously means I want to sit in the light - not surprising for an actor I suppose.

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I tried all my life to be a normal person.

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I have a lot of palm trees, because they say to me holidays and ocean. I grew up very poor and I had an aunt who would go on holiday and send me postcards of palm trees and I would pin them to the wall, so I've gone from that fantasy to reality.

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When I'm depressed and the weather is bad I look up my page on IMDb and I have my coffee and feel better. There are even films on there I don't know about!

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I don't mind playing Nazis, but I'll only play them in comedies. I wouldn't play a serious Nazi.

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There are a few directors - quite a few - who I would like to work with, but I have never written a letter to a director in my life.

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I remember when I worked with Fassbinder in Germany, actors wrote letters to him. But you see, a director wants to discover you himself. He doesn't want the actor to say, 'oh, I'd love to work with you' - the actor says that to other people, too.

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