Christoph Waltz Quotes
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Is regulation per se bad? Is better regulation bad? I think better regulation is good for the business community, and I think that's something we should get together on.
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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Novel writing wrecks homes.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.
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On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake and that of your children, however, I recommend it - I almost insist on it - as the first step for anyone unhappy in a relationship.
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When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all the time, I would say making the Bond movie 'Die Another Day.' To be part of such an iconic franchise and to travel to exotic places - that was the most fun I ever had.
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When you buy anything with lots of leverage, it does not require a whole lot to go wrong to lose it all.
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I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.
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We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
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To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.
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What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?
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I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
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I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything.
