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Udo Kier

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 11, 1944

If I hadn't been an actor, I'd be a gardener.

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Sometimes I get a script that says, 'Only you can play it.' But I like roles in films with little moments - a hand movement in 'Melancholia.' I don't like the big speeches - the 'Oscar speech.' I like to do unusual things on screen.

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I don't like to work with directors who have taken an adoption from another script writer, because it's too much: one of them writes it and then has to explain it to the other, or maybe the director sees it in a way the writer doesn't want it.

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There are many things, as an actor, where you find that a production just wants you for your name. I am not a big, big, big name, but maybe they can sell the movie if I am in it. This I don't like.

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Anybody can act.

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Sometimes, you can also have a big impact in a film just by doing something unexpected.

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I'm a totally desert person.

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When you don't have a family, you create one.

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I'm drawn to people who are free in their way of making films.

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When I have a part that isn't the leading part, I want to act in a way that people remember. Otherwise, what is the point?

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In my real life I'm a very normal person.

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I collect furniture and modern art. And I never go to any parties. I rather prefer to go around in nature.

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I'm very laid-back, and I meet people just by accident - never through agencies or anything like that. I met Paul Morrissey, who directed me in 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein,' on a plane from Rome to Munich. He asked for my telephone number and wrote it in his passport.

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In America as a foreign actor it's very difficult to get into main roles.

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I've done more than 65 films. I don't count them anymore. The first 10 you count and then you stop.

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All of these great directors I've worked with, they've all come to me. I never go after it.

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Warhol took outcasts and made them into stars. There will never be another artist like him.

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In Hollywood, they make movies like they make washing machines. It's a business. In Europe, the films are considered art. No producer would ever tell a director where to cut a film or how to re-write the script. I love Hollywood, but all of the time I have to go back to Europe.

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I'm not very career-driven, never was.

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When you get older time moves faster - much faster.

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