109 Quotes by Christoph Waltz

If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it will turn out different. Or maybe a slightly new aspect to a comic book villain.

If the shoe fits, you must wear it.

You need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home.

What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results.

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?

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I’m such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it’s just something that I was never into. Not because of any superiority. I don’t know why.

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

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

Becoming an actor is like becoming a father. It’s not hard to become one. Making a life of it is the challenge.