Christoph Quotes & Sayings

Madness is a completely undervalued quality and I don't understand why people should hide it to conform to some boring version of themselves. — Christoph Fischer

You know, I don't support esoteric approaches to acting. — Christoph Waltz

My agent is the quickest, sharpest man on earth. — Christoph Waltz

The common approach is, metaphorically speaking, to go out onto the sidewalk and to pick up all the banana skins, so that no one slips. Me, I go down early in the morning and drop more banana skins. People say, 'Well, why would you be doing that?' And I tell them, 'Teaching is not about trying to prevent people from falling down, it's about trying to get them to use their eyes.' If you take the banana skins away, you're saying that life is banana-skin free. Well, it is not. Life is full of banana skins.
I try to teach people to use their eyes, to look where they're stepping. It's my responsibility to respect people, to help them learn the lessons life teaches. When you slip on a banana skin and fall down, discuss what happened and learn from it. I think that it is actually unwise to get in between people and what life is trying to teach them, but we all have a responsibility for each other. — Johann Christoph Arnold

One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I think Pope Francis is a good shepherd and has great experience in following people in joyful, but also distressing situations and he knows what he is speaking about when he discusses how to accompany families in their lives toward joy and love. — Christoph Schonborn

You know, I don't talk about the characters that I play. Years ago, I was a little timid about it and I kind of squirmed when I was asked, 'Could you tell us something about your character.' Now with a little self-confidence that comes with the grey beard, I just flatly refuse. — Christoph Waltz

I forget most of what I read, just as I do most of what I have eaten, but I know that both contribute no less to the conservation of my mind and my body on that account. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Friendship is the holiest of gifts;
God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us!
It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain.
Everyone can have a friend,
Who himself knows how to be a friend. — Christoph August Tiedge

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. — Christoph Waltz

In the Apostolic Exhortation Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis speaks only in one point about homosexual tendencies. As did the last synod, the Holy Father speaks about the question of how to handle the situation when, in the family, a member of the family discovers him or herself having a homosexual tendency. — Christoph Schonborn

It's the economics, that's why opera is not dying but gets more and more difficult to put on. — Christoph Waltz

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Too oft is transient pleasure the source of long woes. — Christoph Martin Wieland

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

It is better to die for the truth than to live for a lie. Let it cost me what it will, I will not depart from the truth, even to save my own or my father's life. I will obey God, and trust Him for the rest. — Christoph Von Schmid

I have always been so interested in film as a medium. — Christoph Waltz

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Even Christoph Waltz's character, Colonel Landa in 'Inglourious Basterds', I never judged him. — Quentin Tarantino

You get hit over the knuckles enough, you don't stick them out anymore. — Christoph Waltz

I would give something to know for precisely whom the deeds were really done, of which it is publicly stated they were done 'for the Fatherland'. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it; which is always a source of amusement to sensible people. — Christoph Martin Wieland

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic. — Christoph Waltz

To be fair, on a good project, no matter whether it's improvised or scripted or meticulously prepared, or all up for grabs, it's always, always beyond the safety zone. Every project becomes interesting and exciting once you move beyond that routine. You always aspire to that. It's not that this improvisational mode is the only mode that facilitates that. — Christoph Waltz

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

have to wait for hours in the admitting room when you come in at night. They've learned that problem cases will be seen by five different specialists, that they'll get a real ECG and a pile of lab results, and even get X-rayed as a bonus - all within an hour or two of walking in the door. In private practice, such a rigorous battery of tests would take several stressful weeks, dozens of annoying phone calls, and countless hours reading dull magazines — Christoph Spielberg

In order to have creativity, you have to allow for dead ends to happen. — Christoph Niemann

You see, my version of why anyone would want to become an actor is that it's some psychological fixation, something that happened in puberty that you didn't outgrow in time, which is normal. Nevertheless, if you make it a profession, it can be really neurotic. — Christoph Waltz

It's easy to not feel misplaced if this tidal wave of appreciation is coming your way. — Christoph Waltz

Stephen Sondheim I am in awe of. — Christoph Waltz

I think our shepherds, our pastors, can take for instance, Chapter Four [of Amoris Laetitia], 'Vive l'amore' ('How to live love'). It's a great catechesis. You can take it chapter by chapter, passage by passage, and work through it in the parish, in the communities. It's a great catechesis on marital and familial love. And I think as pastors, we can use this for our pastoral work. — Christoph Schonborn

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. — Christoph Waltz

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground. — Christoph Martin Wieland

If countries were named after the words you first hear when you go there, England would have to be called "Damn It". — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent. — Christoph Martin Wieland

For the past, rightly understood, is no mere past — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

What it really is and what I now have experienced is that, people who take enormous pride in what they're doing - not in their person - that their work ethos is as high as nowhere else.That they love their jobs, they love to do their jobs properly as best they can. And coupled with the financial umph, you know, you get decent results. — Christoph Waltz

Well, you need the villain. If you don't have a villain, the good guy can stay home. — Christoph Waltz

It requires no especially great talent to write in such a way that another will be very hard put to it to understand what you have written — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede
not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

That there are a hundred with wit for one with understanding is a true proposition with which many witless Dummkopf consoles himself.The Dummkopf should also reflect that there also a hundred possessing neither wit nor understanding for every man possessing wit . — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey game. Either or, they don't do justice to the media and you end up with a hybrid that is purely sensationalistic. Opera is a very theatrical medium that should be seen on a stage with the musicians in the pit in the audience. — Christoph Waltz

Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood. — Christoph Martin Wieland

There is nothing to fear on earth but sin. Prison and death are nothing compared to a guilty conscience. If we are destined to suffer unjustly, if all the world forsake us, God will not. Whatever happens, then, let us put our trust in God. — Christoph Von Schmid

One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and harmony are made, so that God is honored and praised but mankind is moved to devotion, virtue, joy, and sorrow. — Christoph Wolff

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Learn to understand the real beauty of simplicity. — Christoph Von Schmid

- A mother, a real mother with a little child, thinks day and night about the welfare of the little one in her arms. A mother knows what dangers the child will have to encounter as he grows up. She does not let the father reassure her when he makes light of things and says that the children have to find their own way.
A mother worries, for she carries the burden, and she often sees much deeper than the father just where the child is in danger. — Johann Christoph Blumhardt

- It is clear that we have to come down a bit from the high horse of reason on which we enjoy sitting. We have to be simple and take time to think how to make things understandable to the little ones. We have to become children again, and some find that too hard. — Johann Christoph Blumhardt

There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift. — Christoph Martin Wieland

I take praise as not just a reward and a result but also as the beginning of a new process. — Christoph Waltz

Each and every one of us has their own weirdness, it's just that it's more obvious with some people than others. — Christoph Fischer

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. — Christoph Waltz

I am convinced Pope Francis' Exhortation can help. The effort must be made to read it because an exhortation can only help if you know it. It is valuable to know the work. It is so rich and I can only encourage our pastors and our communities to work on it, study it, read it, and taste the joy of this beautiful document. — Christoph Schonborn

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

You believe I run after the strange because I do not know the beautiful; no, it is because you do not know the beautiful that I seek the strange. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing. — Christoph Waltz

I'm very bad with improvisation. I hate it. — Christoph Waltz

I used to hate exposure situations. What is generally referred to as 'red carpet.' — Christoph Waltz

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state. — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary? — Christoph Waltz

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller. — Friedrich Schiller

The excuses we make to ourselves when we want to do something are excellent material for soliloquies, for they are rarely made except when we are alone, and are very often made aloud. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

That's exactly what I'm driving at. 'Basterds' was interesting because it was, in a way, unfamiliar. I thought well, OK. Let's leave the comfort zone and just risk it. Why not? Because, exactly as you said, in a way, by taking that risk, I make up a little bit for my ignorance in the subject, or rather, the genre. — Christoph Waltz

One does not contradict the other.Straight-faced is the basis of all decent comedy. — Christoph Waltz

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

The compulsion of fate is bitter. — Christoph Martin Wieland

I'm open to working anywhere, but not on anything. — Christoph Waltz

I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?

{Said in a letter to Voltaire} — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Physics is the science of motion. — Christoph Schiller

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Laughter is the most healthful exertion. — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it. — Christoph Waltz

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Soak blanket in gravy and make a delicious brick wrap. Serve in All Gravy Room at the Mandrake Hotel. — Christoph Fischer

Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. — Rudolf Christoph Eucken

The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence. — Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland

I don't like to read novelizations of movies. — Christoph Waltz

God is not looking for heroic figures, wonderful people who captivate others with their charisma. It must have been quite baffling to the educated world when Jesus pronounced, "Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are the simple and those with limited education who do not want to understand everything with their intellect. Blessed are they who do not always think they have to put themselves forward to show how smart they are. Blessed are they who do not theorize about heavenly things. Blessed are they who keep to the way that is shown them, whatever life brings. — Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside. — Christoph Waltz

I have often thought that however learned you may talk about it, one knows nothing but what he learns from his own experience.
[Ger., Da dacht ich oft: schwatzt noch so hoch gelehrt,
Man weiss doch nichts, als was man selbst erfahrt.] — Christoph Martin Wieland

It is commonly a dangerous thing for a man to have more sense than his neighbors. Socrates paid for his superiority with his life; and if Aristotle saved his skin, it was by taking to his heels in time. — Christoph Martin Wieland

The cleverest of all the devils is Opportunity. — Christoph Martin Wieland

Nothing is more inimical to the progress of science than the belief that we know what we do not yet know. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg