Quotes from Christoph Waltz

I have always been so interested in film as a medium.

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.

'The Philadelphia Story' is one of my favorite movies.

The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.

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

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting.

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth.

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

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

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

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

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process.

Look at ISIS - without the Internet, they wouldn't exist in the same form. The Internet didn't create them, but the Internet facilitates them. And as we know from history, the facilitation is more dangerous than the cause, because the cause can be dealt with, but the facilitation is elusive.

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

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

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.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

I know from my experience in theater that the crowd is different every night; the reactions, the tension. But it's true for film as well, going from country to country and culture to culture. The difference between California and New York responses, for example. It's really fascinating.

It took me a lot of times watching it that I started to appreciate 'Pulp Fiction.'

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

Cary Grant is really the master of not taking himself so seriously.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

The thing about 'Spectre' is that it is not the work of hack writers. It does not have a hack director. The actors are not hams.

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.