“It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated b...” — Christoph Waltz Quote

“It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn't play a part. Of course it does - that's human nature.”

“Europeans still believe that working is for living. Americans often have that the other way around.”

“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.”

“I met a white man once, who claimed that every black man has a gene which makes him violent. To which, I said I had never been violent and that he was wrong.”

“All I claimed was that when a drastic change occurs, it occurs in a relatively small and isolated population.”

“Almost everyone who has claimed to know what kids need to learn or how they learn has turned out to be wrong.”