List of Rutger Hauer Quotes

I Don't Want To Tell Them What To Take Away From A Movie, I Think A Movie Should Tell That.

Martial Arts Is Like Dance. It's So Beautiful And What I Love About The Martial Arts Mostly Is That What It Basically Says Is You Take Their Energy And You Redirect It. Then If You Need To, Use It On Them. That Whole Thing About Redirecting Energy I Love.

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.

It Took Me A Long Time To Find Out That I Was Born To Be An Actor. It Was The Last Thing On My List, Although My List Was Very Small. I Didn't Know What To Do. But Kids Weren't Supposed To Know What To Do Back Then; We Were All Cute And We'd Find Out What We'd Do Later In Life.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

People Think If You're A Movie Star, You're The Boss. But First Of All, I'm Not A Movie Star, I'm In A Very Different Place. I'm Not Looking To Do What I Want - I Am Looking For What We Can Find. It's A Creative Process.

Well, Of Course, Every Actor's Limited, And I Am The First One To Admit It, In All Honesty, When I Think That I've Hit The Wall A Bit. I'm Not Ashamed At All, I Think It's A Process That You Have To Go Through. That's How You Learn.