Summary Christoph Waltz was honored with a star on Tinseltown's storied Walk of Fame on Monday.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Austrian double-Oscar winner Christoph Waltz was honored with a star on Tinseltown s storied Walk of Fame on Monday -- with Quentin Tarantino first in line to pay tribute.
The "Pulp Fiction" director, whose decision to cast Waltz in 2009 s "Inglourious Basterds" helped the Vienna-born star win the first of his two best supporting actor Oscars, called him "my favorite Austrian."
"On one hand he s a master thespian .... on the other hand he s also a tool box actor .. He just gets around to getting the job done in a very unadorned way," he said at a Hollywood Boulevard star-unveiling ceremony.
"This can t help but .. make his heart swell with pride, even though he might not admit it .. and tickle his funny bone at the same time."
Waltz -- whose new movie "Horrible Bosses 2" came out this weekend -- dismissed Tarantino s suggestion that as a stage-trained actor he didn t take the Hollywood star honor too seriously.
"My heart is not just a little bit throbbing with pride, it s bursting," he said, adding: "I, as a guy from Vienna, would not even have dreamt about (this) in my wildest dreams," he said.
Tarantino, who also cast Waltz in 2012 s "Django Unchained," leading to another Oscar for the actor, insisted that the Austrian is different from the typical Hollywood A-lister.
"Christoph chortles at the Hollywood actors with their assistants, with their miso soup, and their lemon with tea, waiting just off screen for them," he said, describing a stereotypical tantrum-prone star.
"When people complain about the (crew member) in their eyeline, Christoph is the first person to say well I ve done theater, there s hundreds of people in my eyeline, dear boy, you re fine ."
Waltz also co-stars with Amy Adams in "Big Eyes" the Tim Burton-directed biopic of husband-and-wife artists Walter and Margaret Keane, due for release in the US on December 25.
