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Udo Kier

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 11, 1944

I like to go from film to film, meeting new people and playing new roles. Because actors are like children: They want to play, and I like to play.

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I try to do movies that are special.

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I like special directors, and I've collected a few.

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I want to have fun. Big Hollywood films can be fun, but you know it's an industry, and if you don't function, they send you home.

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Good movies are difficult to make, and good trash is even harder to make.

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I'm an aesthetic person who loves beauty.

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I have few friends. I can count them on one hand. I go by myself to the cleaners and the supermarket and I live alone with my dogs.

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I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't know. So we grew up poor. We had no hot water until I was 17. I went to work in a factory, and worked and saved for months until I had the money to come to England.

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Working with someone like Fassbinder was a 24-hour job. You had to be part of the family, and play his games.

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I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.

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Until I was 16 or 17, we had no water. My mother had to cook water in a kettle, and once a week I was bathed, and that was it.

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I've been in over a hundred films so I know what producers are like.

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I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from.

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My agent is a vampire, my lawyer is a vampire, they're all vampires, but they don't suck your blood, they take your money! Vampires are everywhere. It just depends what they're running after.

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With these kinds of figures you can do whatever you want as an actor because there are no guidelines, there are no real vampires. Except in Los Angeles, where everybody's a vampire, you know?

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Frankenstein' was more programmed, but 'Dracula' we did as it came along because at the beginning we weren't sure how it was going to end - it wasn't written in the script.

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I like the vampire films because of the fantasy of it.

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I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don't care if it's a success financially. That's what I like.

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I don't wear gloves when I work in the garden.

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Normally, I like my privacy in the high desert.

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