Quotes by Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz

A silly comedy needs a straight guy, and that guy needs to be as straight as possible. The moment you start playing straight you’re not straight anymore, you’re bent straight, so it really requires the usual serious, straight-forward analysis and research, looking into it and finding the dramatic function, all of what you do until you feel you’ve collected enough points to safely and securely play the part.

Guy

Play

Silly

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

Actors

Challenges

Father

Comedy is the result of what’s happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It’s embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.

Elements

People

Together

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.

Acting

Opera

Singing

I don’t say things straight into the other person’s face. I kind of like to make a joke or a remark and make it digestible or just give a little comment that voices my concern, but is not meant to be a critique, but just a comment so that he understands that I am thinking.

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Thinking

Voice

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don’t expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

India

Interesting

Way

I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it’s a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

Needs

Philosophy

Real

I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they’re not within my world. Not because I feel that I’m above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?

Advantage

Importance

World

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

Art

Europe

Thinking

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

Genius

Thinking

Use

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Comic

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Doe

Earth

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Elephants

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Europe

Extraordinary

Eye

Father

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Guy

Hate

Hockey

Home

I Hate

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Ignorance

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India

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Quotes by Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz

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

Comedy is the result of what’s happening, not what people are doing. Because if people are doing comedy. It’s embarrassing. The individual elements have to be straight-faced, serious, realistic with a firm basis. What makes it comedy is a somewhat shifted way to put it together.

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.

I don’t say things straight into the other person’s face. I kind of like to make a joke or a remark and make it digestible or just give a little comment that voices my concern, but is not meant to be a critique, but just a comment so that he understands that I am thinking.

I go with the most interesting thing that comes my way,I don’t expect it to come from India to tell you the truth, but if it did, fine by me.

I guess there are no real strict rules [in comedy], but I just learn to apply my philosophy about comedy which is, it’s a serious business and the result needs to be funny, not the process.

I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they’re not within my world. Not because I feel that I’m above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?

I think in Europe, movies are made like a commodity and then sold as art.

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

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