Rutger Hauer

Rutger: To me, every movie we make is fiction - even movies about Van Gogh. It's all make-believe, even if some of it is based on truth; some movies are based on another kind of truth, one that we imagine.

Rutger: I realize that not all my works have the same quality, however, I am not ashamed of any of them.

Rutger: If I must chose between going to the movies or going to the beach, I certainly choose to throw myself on the beach.

Rutger: To be great or brilliant can't be achieved through work. It is given in birth.

Rutger: Language comes from a place in the gut, from a place in the human soul.

Rutger: To me, film is about movement.

Rutger: I have a director inside of me who's always with me and who's always talking.

Rutger: I have died around 40 or 50 times in movies. I think I'm getting the hang of it.

Rutger: Blade Runner will always be the most unusual jewel in my crown.

Rutger: I still feel my roots are in Holland and I still feel very much part of that culture. If you have a strong sense of identity I don't think you lose it. But travelling so much does change you.

Rutger: Each character has a different set of rules and there is not a whole set of logic going on there. But that doesn't mean your instincts are always right. If I interpret them the wrong way I'll still wobble.

Rutger: As an actor, if you get too big you get locked in.

Rutger: People recognize me all over the world. Sometimes they are not sure why. And I love that. I like the fact that I'm not instantly known.

Rutger: I have a constant battle with the American Dream. This idea that you always have to make a billion dollars for something to be considered a success is.... well, silly.

Rutger: There is just no discipline in my life. Everything changes constantly. And that makes it hard.

Rutger: If I can get to play a monster on the inside I like it a lot. Because a lot of us are monsters on the inside.

Rutger: Part of the freedom you have as a bad guy is that you can go anywhere especially if it's a psychotic bad guy. You can do anything you want.

Rutger: I think in my darker characters I go a little further than most American actors.

Rutger: There seems to be a bigger need in Hollywood for people to stereotype. They want to put you in a box. It makes for short-term security I guess but the problem is that people don't come in boxes. We're more like bubbles of water.

Rutger: I'm glad that I'm not known for just one film but a whole body of work.

Rutger: I am a millionaire and I don't need to work. I only want to do interesting things.

Rutger: I am not really into science fiction at all because I tend to think that it's just another sort of game with the brain. The subject is the future, which is fun to think about, but it doesn't really attract me.

Rutger: 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: I don't know what the appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and I don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand all the fuss.

Rutger: 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: I am not really into science fiction at all because I tend to think that it's just another sort of game with the brain. The future, which is fun to think about, but it doesn't really attract me.