Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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?

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

By looking into more details of American history, we can make more sense of what's happening today.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she wants. Humans need to be shrunk again to their actual size.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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

Christoph Waltz
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.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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.'

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

I only do what I like to do.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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.

Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz

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