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Udo Kier

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 11, 1944

Gus van Sant I met at the Berlin film festival, and he came up to me. He had a little film in the festival called 'Mala Noche' that he had made for $20,000. He said: 'You are one of my favourite actors. I'm doing 'My Own Private Idaho' with River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves. You should be in it!' Then I started working with Gus.

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I like Prague, it's strange. All the houses you see look like Disney sets, with their bright colours.

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I don't consider myself funny.

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I mean, if you are director like Lars Von Trier who is able to get actors on a table like Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, James Caan, Nicole Kidman, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgard, Udo Kier, all in the self-service situation in the same room, the same trailer, no money, then you must have something that everybody accepts.

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I'm very lucky to say that I worked with a lot of directors who cannot make a bad film. Like when Wim Wenders, they cannot make a bad film. They can make a film people don't like, or it's the wrong moment.

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As an actor it gets boring to play always the villain.

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It is fun to play evil parts... especially vampires.

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You know, I don't want to waste my time by being in a movie where nobody remembers my part. That's not interesting at all!

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The interesting part about 'Iron Sky' was crowdfunding. It was financed in a very special new way. Timo Vuorensola is an amazing, concentrated person who was able to make this comedy. When I saw the film for the first time, I liked it very much.

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The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.

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I've made over 220 films. Of these 220 films, 100 films are not good, 50 are okay, and 50 are very good.

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I get nervous when I'm sitting in an airplane at 10,000 feet and then the sign comes on: 'Please fasten your seatbelt for turbulence.'

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If everybody would love each other, there would be no war.

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I love the smell of the Earth. I'm a good cook my friends say. I love cooking for my friends. So I'm totally the opposite of being evil. I think only if you're a good person can you be very evil onscreen.

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People often say to me, especially people from the press: 'Oh, you are so evil.' But I'm a gardener. I rescue animals in Palm Springs where I live.

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I like Palm Springs because of the sunshine. It's a little city surrounded by mountains.

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I never wanted to be an actor. I just wanted to learn languages and travel and see the world.

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I'm a very quiet person actually.

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Nobody of us has ever seen ourselves! We see a reflection in the mirror.

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