Top 112 Quotes & Sayings by Udo Kier
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
My agent is a vampire, my lawyer is a vampire, they're all vampires, but they don't suck your blood, they take your money! Vampires are everywhere. It just depends what they're running after.
I like special directors, and I've collected a few.
My great joy these days is giving palm trees water. Simple as that.
Working with someone like Fassbinder was a 24-hour job. You had to be part of the family, and play his games.
I like to go from film to film, meeting new people and playing new roles. Because actors are like children: They want to play, and I like to play.
I don't wear gloves when I work in the garden.
Until I was 16 or 17, we had no water. My mother had to cook water in a kettle, and once a week I was bathed, and that was it.
I collect chairs and lights, which obviously means I want to sit in the light - not surprising for an actor I suppose.
For me to do interviews is painful. People don't know that. To do an interview is going back in time. And to go back in time, maybe it wasn't all the time that good.
I'm coming from an artistic background, from Europe, making films with Lars Van Trier like 'Breaking the Waves,' 'Dancer in the Dark,' all his films, 'The Kingdom.' But I like both, I like the totally artificial, commercial films where the actor has five or six bodyguards, I like that.
Frankenstein' was more programmed, but 'Dracula' we did as it came along because at the beginning we weren't sure how it was going to end - it wasn't written in the script.
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.
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.
It's logical when you become known to the industry with 'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein' that they typecast you and want you in their horror movies. That's how I got 'Blade,' of course, because they were fans.
Audition is the worst thing. It's like cleaning furniture in a department store.
I remember when I worked with Fassbinder in Germany, actors wrote letters to him. But you see, a director wants to discover you himself. He doesn't want the actor to say, 'oh, I'd love to work with you' - the actor says that to other people, too.
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.
I like digital films.
The good thing about films is, you never know how good they will be. If there was a formula, there would only be good films!
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.
I've been in over a hundred films so I know what producers are like.
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.
I like to work with directors who write their own stories.
Evil has no limits. If you are a good person, everybody expects you to be good. If you are very good then you become Albert Schweitzer or Mother Theresa. Then you're very good because you are helping people. But evil has no limits.
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.
I'll tell you what a friendship is to me. Friendship to me is, if my friends need my little finger to live, I'm going to have it cut off. I'm going to the hospital, they cut off my finger, and maybe I have a gold finger instead, and I become famous. But I still give it to my friend.
I was fascinated by the story of FW Murnau, one of the most famous directors in Germany, where I come from.
There are a few directors - quite a few - who I would like to work with, but I have never written a letter to a director in my life.
I don't mind playing Nazis, but I'll only play them in comedies. I wouldn't play a serious Nazi.
In 'House of Boys,' I wanted to be in drag. It was amazing to be in the middle of all these drag queens. They did my makeup. I hardly recognized myself! That was very funny.
My dream would be to play the villain in a James Bond movie, or opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger. I like everything exaggerated.
I want to have fun. Big Hollywood films can be fun, but you know it's an industry, and if you don't function, they send you home.
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.
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.
Good movies are difficult to make, and good trash is even harder to make.
If you have a smaller role, but if you work with a great director, they make it unforgettable.
With these kinds of figures you can do whatever you want as an actor because there are no guidelines, there are no real vampires. Except in Los Angeles, where everybody's a vampire, you know?
I like the vampire films because of the fantasy of it.
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.'
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.
If David Lynch wants me to audition I will do it. But a young filmmaker, no. I won't.
If I hadn't been an actor, I'd be a gardener.
I think it's important for a filmmaker to know his actors, because you have to work so closely together and you have to like them or you'll have a horrible time.
I'm scared of high buildings.
I like to have the newest thing. I like the Internet, they know more about me than I do, which is amazing.
Nobody of us has ever seen ourselves! We see a reflection in the mirror.
I had such a horrible childhood. My father was already married with three children when I was born and my mother didn't know. So we grew up poor. We had no hot water until I was 17. I went to work in a factory, and worked and saved for months until I had the money to come to England.
There's actors and actresses who I call 'Trailer Stars' because their importance is expressed by how big their trailers are. And then there are real actors, who are real good people.
Rob Zombie's very intellectual-crazy, and I like people like that. No stupid craziness.
When I'm depressed and the weather is bad I look up my page on IMDb and I have my coffee and feel better. There are even films on there I don't know about!
If you make horror movies, you always have to think what's photogenic and what's not.
Normally, I like my privacy in the high desert.
I was brought up in Germany, born in 1944, and there was nothing to eat.
I'm an aesthetic person who loves beauty.
There are certain people who I worked with, Pamela Anderson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, they are figures. And they know this. They don't pretend to be good actors. They were made by the industry into figures.
The villain is the character that the people remember.
I tried all my life to be a normal person.
I made so many films I thought were great and they turned out horrible, and I made films I did not believe in at all, and 'Shadow Of The Vampire' was one of these films I did not believe in during the shooting. And then when I saw it I was surprised what they had made out of it. They edited for quite a long time.
I try to do movies that are special.
Werner Herzog, I knew him for so many years, when Fassbinder was at his highest moment. But we had a rule: An actor from Fassbinder could never work with an actor of Werner Herzog or Wim Wenders. Because if we would have done that, we would have been spies. 'Ah, you worked with Werner - how was it? How did he direct you?' I was Fassbinder's actor.
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