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• You’re always being cast for what you’ve been in last.

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• You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it’s some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn’t outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic.

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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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• You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don’t stick them out anymore.

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• You can’t always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn’t, what would constitute the extraordinary?

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• When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.

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• Well, you need the villain. If you don’t have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

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• The villain is usually the most interesting part. But it has to be a smart thing. Just dumb cliche villains with a Russian accent and big muscles and a mean face, I don’t know. My Russian accent isn’t that great, and the muscles aren’t that big and the mean face is not enough. You know what I mean? It gets very boring. Tedious stuff.

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• Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

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• Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of.

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• Praise is nothing that accumulates. Praise is a sequence, especially if you’ve toiled for a long time. Praise does not pile up. So in a way, you can’t get too much. I don’t consider it to be a quantity that you can measure by volume.

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• My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

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• It’s easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way.

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• It’s a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.

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• It bothers me that people who should know better believe a glossy magazine fantasy.

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• I’m very bad with improvisation. I hate it.

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

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• I’m open to working anywhere, but not on anything.

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• I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

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Christoph Waltz (28)

Birth:	4th October, 1956
Nationality:	Austrian, German
Profession:	Actor

About

Christoph Waltz was born in Vienna, Austria. He is a German-Austrian actor. He is best known for his works with American filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, receiving acclaim for portraying SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds and bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz in Django Unchained. For each performance, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2000, he made his directorial debut, with the German television production Wenn man sich traut. He received the Best Actor Award for the performance at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and received acclaim from critics and the public.

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