Udo Kier Quotes About Love, Life, Nervous, Comedy, Dream

Udo Kier Quotes:

The interesting part about ‘Iron Sky’ was crowdfunding. It was financed in a very special new way. Timo Vuorensola is an amazing, concentrated person who was able to make this comedy. When I saw the film for the first time, I liked it very much.
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Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog: They all write, which is much better because it’s their baby, and they know what they want.
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My dream would be to play the villain in a James Bond movie, or opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like everything exaggerated.
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I don’t like to work with directors who have taken an adoption from another script writer, because it’s too much: one of them writes it and then has to explain it to the other, or maybe the director sees it in a way the writer doesn’t want it.
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I like ‘Brawl in Cell Block 99.’ I think Vince Vaughn is incredible and I’ve never seen Don Johnson like that. It is very realistic. Some people say it is a horror film. It is not a horror film at all. It is very realistic.
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Artistically I like to do short-term things. Like I do a lot of commercials, I have the Miller commercial out where I play the Devil in Hell, where Hell is frozen.
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I don’t wear gloves when I work in the garden.
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Sometimes, you can also have a big impact in a film just by doing something unexpected.
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I have a lot of palm trees, because they say to me holidays and ocean. I grew up very poor and I had an aunt who would go on holiday and send me postcards of palm trees and I would pin them to the wall, so I’ve gone from that fantasy to reality.
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Anybody can act.
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The first day of shooting came, and of course I was nervous. I would lie if I said I wasn’t impressed. I mean, Lars von Trier hiring me to be the king in ‘Medea’… Lars said, ‘Stop! Stop!’ And I was so nervous, I turned around and said, ‘What is it?’ He said, ‘… Just be a tired king.’
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I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.
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I made films, like ‘Shadow of the Vampire,’ and I did not like the work I did on it and then Willem Dafoe was nominated for the Oscar. I made films like ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’ with Martin Landau. I thought I would get nominated and it flopped. You never know.
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My great joy these days is giving palm trees water. Simple as that.
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I mean, if you are director like Lars Von Trier who is able to get actors on a table like Lauren Bacall, Ben Gazzara, James Caan, Nicole Kidman, Chloe Sevigny, Stellan Skarsgard, Udo Kier, all in the self-service situation in the same room, the same trailer, no money, then you must have something that everybody accepts.
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I like to have the newest thing. I like the Internet, they know more about me than I do, which is amazing.
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I’ve been in over a hundred films so I know what producers are like.
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Sometimes I get a script that says, ‘Only you can play it.’ But I like roles in films with little moments – a hand movement in ‘Melancholia.’ I don’t like the big speeches – the ‘Oscar speech.’ I like to do unusual things on screen.
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The best compliment for a director is that an audience hates their films.
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I have few friends. I can count them on one hand. I go by myself to the cleaners and the supermarket and I live alone with my dogs.
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I don’t mind playing Nazis, but I’ll only play them in comedies. I wouldn’t play a serious Nazi.
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I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.
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I like special directors, and I’ve collected a few.
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I’m an aesthetic person who loves beauty.
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I have no time for real horses, so I have a plastic horse. Large size. Called Max Von Sydow. For photographs it looks real. If I do a photo shoot and it stands in the background, you think it’s a horse. A horse is a horse.
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Working with someone like Fassbinder was a 24-hour job. You had to be part of the family, and play his games.
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I like Palm Springs because of the sunshine. It’s a little city surrounded by mountains.
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I like to work with directors where you feel they make the movies not for the audience, but make them for themselves. They don’t care if it’s a success financially. That’s what I like.
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