Tag: Regret

Christoph Waltz: ‘My only regret is that I didn’t attack Nigel Farage enough’

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Why do you generally choose not to talk about the characters you have played? It seems unusual for an actor. tttophonks
Because that’s not what I do. I play them. I think it is absolutely ridiculous that actors go on their bonus DVD interviews and explain what they were doing. That’s not what an actor does. An actor plays the part for you to make up your mind. I always quote Harrison Ford: “My job is not to tell you what I think about my character. My job is to tell you what you think about my character.” It’s completely counterproductive for an actor to talk about his part. If it requires explanation, you have to ask yourself a few questions. That’s why I don’t talk about the characters.
I’ve always wanted to know what you would be doing if you weren’t acting. I’ve always imagined you as some kind of fixer for international hitmen. wildsville

I don’t even know what a fixer for an international hitman does, but it’s a nice, poetic description of people’s image of me. It’s far too late to think about what I would have done. I wanted to be an artist, I wanted to be a cinematographer, then I became an actor. Why? That is open to speculation, especially on my part. I’ve been doing this for over 45 years. So you understand my hesitance to think about what I would have done had I not become an actor. Maybe I’d have become an alcoholic, or a bank president – or both.
I can remember a very early interview in which you actually predicted that you would win an Oscar … Red_Roland

That’s incorrect. I never predicted that. If I did, then it was facetious. People run around thinking they will win the lottery, otherwise they wouldn’t be dumb enough to spend all that money. The chances that you win are millions to one. The chances that you will get run over when you cross the street are infinitely higher. Do you leave your house in the morning, thinking, “I’m going to be run over today”? Of course not. You go about your day, otherwise you couldn’t function. That’s exactly why I never said I would win an Oscar.
Christoph Waltz as SS officer Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds (2009). Photograph: c Weinstein/Everett/Rex Featur
You won Oscars for your supporting roles in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. Which role in another Quentin Tarantino movie would you most – and least – like to have played? TopTramp

Here’s a big misconception perpetuated by the dreadful bonus DVD crap that is slung around. You do not choose roles by what you see. The end product is inseparably connected to the personality of the person who played it. You choose roles from what you read. To watch a movie and say, “Oh, I would’ve liked to play that part,” means you think you could have played it better. It’s a very immature thought to entertain. It’s counterproductive and completely misses the point to say: “Oh, I would’ve liked to play Robin Hood in Men in Tights,” because maybe I don’t even look good in tights.
Why do you think directors predominantly cast you as the bad guy? persekabpas

Well, that again is a limited vision. I don’t know how many roles I’ve played in movies over the course of my career. It’s probably 150, and I may have played 50 bad guys. Directors do not predominantly cast me as bad guys. This person predominantly saw me as the bad guy. But that’s a different question.
Christoph Waltz as Regus Patoff in the Prime Video thriller The Consultant. Photograph: PR
Given your recent roles in The Consultant and Old Guy, what is your personal attitude to ageing? Valeriecath

Helplessness? I’m not sure that personal attitude will give you a choice. Just this morning I saw another breakthrough in the discovery of how cells age. That doesn’t mean that we can or should reverse it. Human beings are faced with many situations that, in most aspects, are beyond our influence. We make ourselves extremely unhappy by falling into the trap that we have choices about everything. In my little book, the most important aspect is that we overlook the realm, aspects and points where we really do have an influence on our lives, existence or situation on this world. When we actually have a choice and influence, we sacrifice them for the sake of choices that go beyond our scope. Hence, I think ageing is beyond our influence. We age, we try to live a decent life, and the rest is unforeseeable.
Did you get much backlash for calling out Nigel Farage in the days after the Brexit referendum? brucevayne1000

My only regret is that I didn’t attack him enough. When he gloriously announced his retreat from politics, I said that the head rat is leaving the sinking ship, because clearly he saw that he had overshot in the face of Brexit, so he retired. Britain goes down, Nigel Farage is sitting on his money in the Cayman Islands and laughing himself silly. It’s beyond comprehension. I was at a press junket in London when I said it, and the person who did the interview took his SD card and fed it straight on to the internet.

Christoph Waltz as a young actor in 1977. Photograph: United Archives/Getty Images
Do you still mourn the fact that a career in opera didn’t pan out as you maybe hoped as a younger man? Kevtb1987

It’s rather pompous to say, “Do I mourn”. I studied opera but it was never really a viable option to become an opera singer.
If they remade Die Hard, would you play Hans Gruber? Ker555
No!
I think you’d make a fantastic Doctor in Doctor Who. Would you be up for it? Felis_Lunar
You can answer these questions on the silly level that they were asked, or you can answer them more sensibly. The question is rather: would the studio be up for that? Yes, I would, gladly, and I’m sure audiences all over the world would welcome it with jubilant enthusiasm.
Would you like to play Dracula? teabags12

It’s a funny question. You can’t play a concept. Dracula is a whole concept of horror. It defines the genre of the vampire movie. An actor cannot do that. I can play a very specific part. So if the right Dracula script comes along, most definitely. Will the right Dracula script come along? Not necessarily.
In Inglourious Basterds, was that a real or a stunt apple strudel that you stubbed your cigarette in? wenders14

A precise answer to that question would require a more precise definition of the term “stunt strudel”.
Have you seen Rob Brydon’s impersonation of you? ColonelFlustered

Seeing this question, I tried to find the clip online, then I got bored looking for it. It is easy to do any impression of me. It’s not difficult. Everybody who has a distinct way of speaking is easy to impersonate. When it’s easy to recognise, it’s easy to impersonate. Someone did an impression of me on Saturday Night Live. I saw it and didn’t recognise myself, but they thought it was hysterically funny. But they always do.
Christoph Waltz with Kate Winslet in Roman Polanski’s 2011 film Carnage. Photograph: Constantin Film/Allstar
What kept you going when you were a struggling actor? Jonnieog

I needed to support a family, so I didn’t have problems doing shitty jobs. The chances that I would have ended up as a cantankerous, frustrated old fart were pretty high, so I am seriously grateful that I managed to escape that. There are endless cop shows on German television, but it feels like in Germany they have more regional cop shows than anywhere else. So I played regional cops and regional murderers for what seemed like an eternity.
The Allianz adverts you star in are really clever; it’s clear you’re a good match for the campaign. Is there anything you’ve seen and wished you had invested in at the time? ChristophWaltzVaultz
Yes, I wish I had invested in Apple and Microsoft very early on! It’s a little in the vein of the lottery win. Allianz takes the other angle: what can I do to use what money I have in a meaningful and constructive way? How can I make sense with my money and create a situation that corresponds with my philosophy of life? The one term that is swirling around lately is empowerment, but education is the best annuity.
Waltz lathers up. Photograph: PR company handout
I see Allianz as an educational, informative campaign to say there is more to know than you may gather from first sight. Why not have fun with it? After all, it’s your money.
You seem like a nice guy. But should we trust you? Twist27

No. On both counts.
Waltz has partnered with Allianz’s Start Making Cents campaign to help people prepare for their financial future.
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( With inputs from : www.theguardian.com )

April 27, 2023
FCIK Expresses Regret Over Destruction Of Industrial Unit In Fire

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SRINAGAR: The Federation of Chambers of Industries Kashmir (FCIK) has expressed regret over the fire incident which took place in industrial estate Anchidora, Anantnagon Thursday evening in which the property worth over 100 lakhs belonging to a polyfoam mattress manufacturing unit M/s 5-Star polymers was destroyed
While conveying deepest sympathies on behalf of the apex organisation, the President FCIK assured the promoter of the unit Afroz Shah of every possible support that they required at this crucial juncture.
“FCIK put the onus of all fire incidents in industrial estates on the industrial corporations manning these estates which have miserably failed in building the necessary firefighting infrastructure in industrial estates of the valley,” the FCIK said in a statement, adding, “ The unit in Anchidora could have been saved from massive damage had the corporation put in place fire hydrants and water storage facility in place. Although the unit was equipped with fire extinguishers, these couldn’t help in controlling the fire as it had already spread before the fire fighters reached the spot.
FCIK called the attention of the government to direct the concerned for installation of fire hydrants in all small estates which could work as the first line of action in case of a fire till fire tenderers reached the affected estates. The government should provide full-fledged fire stations in more and more estates and make these fully functional, President FCIK demanded.
FCIK also demanded that the industries department take stock of the fire incident in Anchidora and reach out to the affected unit for all possible help and facilitation.

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( With inputs from : kashmirlife.net )

April 15, 2023
CM Khattar expresses regret, withdraws remark on judge

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Chandigarh: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday expressed regret and withdrew his remark on a judge after it sparked a political row with opposition Congress dubbing the statement “an attack on the country’s judiciary”.
In a video posted by Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala on Sunday, Khattar could be heard assuring someone during a “Jan Samvad” programme in Bhiwani district that “Wo hal ho jaayegi, chinta mat karo. Ek judge hai…. (Your issue will be resolved, don’t worry. There is a judge…”
Khattar had made the remark on Sunday. He is currently on a visit to Bhiwani district where he is holding interaction with the villagers on their grievances.

Surjewala had claimed that Khattar made an objectionable remark against a high court judge and termed it “an attack on the country’s judiciary”.
“It is an attempt to influence the high court proceedings,” Surjewala had said, while condemning the CM’s remarks. He had demanded that the Chief Justice of India and the Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court take cognisance of the matter and issue a contempt notice to Khattar.
He had also demanded that CM apologise to the judiciary for his remarks.
He claimed that Khattar was talking about the recruitment of constables in the Haryana Police over which a case is pending before the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
With opposition training guns at Khattar over the remark, the chief minister said on Monday he believed the comment should not have been made.

“I respect courts of law. I immediately also said that whatever the courts rule is the final verdict and there is no doubt about that,” Khattar told a private channel in Bhiwani when asked about Surjewala’s tweet.
Khattar also said that things move forward by maintaining a balance among the judiciary, executive and legislature and the three organs work for the public welfare.
“It was a question pertaining to an inordinate delay. An examination took place, and the result was also announced, but a stay was imposed (by the court). Thus, an ‘Aswabhavik si tippani’ (uncharacteristic comment) came out. I also feel it should not have been made. Even if a thing might have reached a particular judge, I withdraw my words.
“But, I intended to say that thousands of people are affected due to this delay, and they are not getting adequate time for their training. Daily we are asked about this. In Sunday’s public meeting too, all such people who could not join their jobs also came… Thus, an uncharacteristic comment was made which I regret,” Khattar added.
Meanwhile, at a press conference here, when former chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda was asked the comment, he said said, “Those who are sitting in responsible positions should not speak irresponsibly”
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( With inputs from www.siasat.com )

April 3, 2023
Himanta writes to Shinde, seeks statement of regret from Maha MLA for ‘stray dog’ comment

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Guwahati: Taking exception to Maharashtra MLA Bachchu Kadu’s purported proposal that stray dogs be sent to Assam, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Wednesday wrote to his counterpart in the western state, seeking that the statement be withdrawn.
In the letter, which he tweeted, Sarma said he and the people of Assam were “dismayed” by the comment.
“Along with the people of Assam, I am extremely dismayed and agitated by the comments of the MLA, which has exposed his prejudices and ignorance about the culture of our state. I am sure that you will fully empathise with the sentiments of the people of Assam in this matter,” Sarma wrote.
The CM requested Shinde to advise Kadu to “withdraw the comments and ask him to make a press statement expressing regret”.
Kadu had reportedly proposed in the Maharashtra Assembly that stray dogs be sent to Assam to control their rising population, as they are consumed by locals in the northeastern state.
The issue had led to noisy scenes on the first day of the ongoing assembly session in Assam on March 10, with opposition MLAs disrupting the governor’s speech and staging a walkout.
Opposition AIUDF had demanded that Kadu be called to the house and made to apologise, while the Congress questioned the government’s “inaction” in the matter.
Independent legislator Akhil Gogoi said that the matter should have found a mention in the governor’s speech.

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March 22, 2023
Opinion | The McCarthy Holdouts May Come to Regret the Deal They Made

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The frustration among all members of the House about a broken process — where huge omnibus spending bills are negotiated behind closed doors and then voted on in the middle of the night — is totally understandable. It has also been a complaint from just about every backbencher in congressional history.
The process, of course, has gone seriously off the rails in the last couple of decades in Congress, culminating in the Nancy Pelosi years. The former speaker had little interest in a fair process and was more than willing to trample on the rights of the House minority.
When I was a senior aide to then-Speaker Denny Hastert, the so-called Accidental Speaker who picked up the reins of power in 1999 after Newt Gingrich’s stormy leadership came to an abrupt end, we promised to deliver regular order.
What regular order meant back then was a devotion to a predictable, repeatable, democratic and orderly process. It relied on the authorizing committees to do their authorizing, the budget committee to do its budgeting, the taxing committee (Ways and Means) to do its taxing and the spending committee (Appropriations) to do the spending.
We promised to give members back their power to make decisions and we outlined a clear agenda that promised to secure America’s future. Hastert had deep personal failings, but he was effective as a leader on Capitol Hill because he promised to be a listener more than a speaker, and he was rewarded by his colleagues by becoming the longest Republican speaker of the House in history.
In Congress, it was a great approach. But then conservatives learned that regular order didn’t necessarily reflect what they wanted, which was a lot less government. The regular order wheels started to fall off the bus when Hastert insisted on passing legislation to modernize Medicare with a prescription drug benefit. Conservatives revolted and the speaker had to keep a vote open for three and a half hours, which was decidedly against the regular order. But as Hastert explained at the time, for senior citizens who were waiting for 30 years for their drug benefit, three hours was not too long to wait.
Bill Thomas (McCarthy’s former boss) was the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and one of the principal architects of the Medicare Modernization Act, and he wasn’t all that concerned about regular order. He just wanted to get the bill passed, as did President George W. Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and other members of the Republican establishment. Conservatives were furious, but senior citizens were mostly pleased to get the new drug benefit.
Regular order is great until the point that you need to pass legislation that pleases your caucus and the American people simultaneously. And that is the challenge for McCarthy and House Republicans as they move forward. Regular order is fine in theory. But at the end of the day, the American people don’t care about process. They care about results.

I appreciate the sentiments of the small band of rebels who demanded that McCarthy give them a bigger say in the legislative process, and I appreciate that they were using all their leverage to extract concessions before they gave him their vote as speaker. But they need to understand that regular order doesn’t necessarily mean that conservatives will get the results they want. And they need to ask themselves a question: What is it that they want? Do they want an open process where they can win debate points but perhaps lose amendment votes? Or do they want to tilt the process in their favor, stifle debate and hopefully get enough moderates to come their way in a House that has historically tight margins?
These questions become even more salient as Congress considers what to do about the debt limit.
It is the rare member of Congress who loses his or her seat when it comes to extending the debt limit. Voters simply don’t care about the esoteric parliamentary debates that revolve around our absurd fiscal irresponsibility.
But that doesn’t mean that political campaigns don’t try to make hay out of the debt limit and especially for Republicans, it is a hard vote to swallow. GOP lawmakers don’t like out-of-control spending, and they get frustrated when they seemingly can’t do anything about it.
A regular order approach to dealing with the debt limit would entail committee hearings at the Ways and Means and Budget committees, a markup at the committee level, a Rules Committee hearing, where the panel would decide which amendments would be considered, and then a robust floor debate, where those amendments would be considered.
If that regular order process were actually employed, the House would likely vote down most conservative-backed amendments to sharply curtail spending on entitlement programs, and then it would pass a relatively clean debt ceiling lift and send it over to the Senate. Then the Democratic-led Senate, with help from some Republicans, would pass that bill in the name of economic stability, and President Joe Biden would eagerly sign it.
It would be a fair and open debate, but it wouldn’t deliver a particularly conservative result.
The truth is that while the House GOP skews conservative on many issues, in certain areas — like spending money on the military, keeping the government open and avoiding a debt default and potential financial crisis — there is a bipartisan majority to do the opposite of what the hard right wants.
Regular order rarely yields unambiguously happy results for the conservative movement. And that is the reality for the Freedom Caucus and for Kevin McCarthy. They can proclaim the need for regular order all they want, but at the end of the day, the speaker has to find a way to keep his majority happy and also prove that he can govern for the rest of the American people. I wish the new speaker luck.
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( With inputs from : www.politico.com )

January 19, 2023