109 Quotes by Christoph Waltz

I think Stephen Sondheim is a – and I hardly ever use this word – but this is as close as it gets to a genius.

It’s the economics, that’s why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on.

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

Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that's when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.

There is no such thing as pure art. It's a bourgeois conceit.

I've done so many jobs because I've had to, not because I've wanted to. And it's honourable to do a job because you need to feed your children, and maybe there is also something in it for your development as an actor. But only up to a point.

I've always been able to work as an actor and support my family and did great jobs, and more often than not, I got to turn down jobs that I didn't really want to do for various reasons or refuse to work with people I didn't like - and there are quite a few.

There is one thing I do miss in L.A. I love autumn.

A James Bond film can be artistically fulfilling. Absolutely it can. It can be complex, and it can be interesting. I consider Bond movies to be an extension of popular theatre, a kind of modern mythology. You see the same sort of action in 'Punch and Judy' or in the folk theatre of various cultures, like 'Grand Guignol.'