Rutger Hauer Professions : Actor Born : January 23, 1944 Browse All Authors Top 32 quotes by Rutger Hauer Most of the real bad guys in the world are people like you and me; they're not stupid, and you can't smell their horns. Rutger Hauer smell real stupid Whatsoever your hand finds to do, do it gladly. Because there is no work, love, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave. Rutger Hauer graves meaningful hands Maybe you'll end up like me, a hobo with a shotgun. Rutger Hauer shotguns hobos ends By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered. Rutger Hauer beautiful school needs "Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical. Rutger Hauer hero play character I don't mind reminding people it's a movie, or that you're telling a story. Everybody knows this, but for some reason, we want to be real. I don't get it, I like the fakeness of my craft. I don't think the audience minds-they all know we're making a movie. Rutger Hauer real people thinking I don't want to tell them what to take away from a movie, I think a movie should tell that. Rutger Hauer thinking I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Rutger Hauer movie believe people It doesn't matter who's directing, or who's doing the movie; there are a ton of things that can go wrong, and they do all the time. So you just have to figure out how to get through it, and then how the director finally puts it together, and then see what the audience takes from it. That's the most important thing to me. Rutger Hauer important together directors I'm way bigger than people think I am. I'm way bigger. I've been underrated all my life, and that's fine. I have privacy. I can walk the street without being hassled. I can be a regular guy. The price to give that up is so horrible. When you become a part of the hysteria - it's not completely in my hands - you have to hide. Rutger Hauer hysteria hands thinking I was convinced that acting was for fools. I was on the stage when I was eight with my father, he was playing one of those Greek blind guys that sees things and warns people, whilst I was in a blue skirt. I think there were 5,000 people in the theatre, it was ridiculous. Rutger Hauer eight father thinking I think it's dynamite, the way my career has just kept moving, even when people didn't know it did. I made such interesting films, but, yeah, they're not necessarily the big movies that go to the supermarket. I don't need those movies, because I don't wanna do them. Rutger Hauer careers moving thinking I think I'm an actor. You can hire me. I can do a good job. But you also have to get lucky now and then. Every film-maker knows how hard it is to do a good film. You have to just make many, and see how lucky you get. Rutger Hauer lucky jobs thinking I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself. Rutger Hauer fighting heart running I don’t make the decision about what percentage of good guy or bad guy I play. For some reason, if I put my energy into the bad guy, that scares people. It’s magic. Rutger Hauer guy play people Nobody's seen all my work. No one. No one in the world has seen all my movies. Some things just never came out... some things may still come out. Rutger Hauer stills may world Then he releases a dove and dies while sitting in a rain storm Rutger Hauer storm sitting rain I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work. Rutger Hauer ego hate taken I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss. Rutger Hauer dames eye blue I think one third of my work is with first-time directors because I think I should, you know? Really, the difference between a first-time director and a second- or third-time director - I mean there's no director who makes enough movies anyway - but if they're talented, they have it. And there is no movie that is perfect. Rutger Hauer differences mean thinking Similar Authors Ian Mckellen actor Adhir Kalyan actor Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje actor Bert Lahr actor Alan Arkin actor Alan Alda actor All Authors
