- Rutger was once in a Dutch production of Hair.
- Rutger wrote a book called All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants and Blade Runners in 2007 with Patrick Quinlan.
- Rutger is the grandfather of Leandro Maeder.
- Rutger is the son of Arend Hauer.
- Rutger appeared in two vampire movies with Donald Sutherland. They are Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Salem's Lot.
- Rutger is the father of Aysha Hauer.
- Rutger was once married to Heidi Merz.
- It is rumored that Anne Rice wrote the part of Lestat in Interview With A Vampire specifically for Rutger.
- Rutger has considered writing a novel on the internet.
- Rutger made a comeback of sorts in the last few years, playing villains in movies such as Sin City and Batman Begins.
- Rutger was awarded a Golden Globe for Escape From Sobibor.
- Rutger won the Best Actor award at the 1988 Seattle International Film Festival for his appearance in the film The Legend of the Holy Drinker.
- Rutger was nominated for a Golden Globe for HBO Picture's Fatherland.
- Rutger is considered Holland's greatest actor.
- During Rutger's first television appearance when he was 11, he did not speak his lines during the live transmission, forcing another actor to take over his lines.
- Rutger first appeared on television in 1954, when he was 11.
- Rutger was hired for the movie Blade Runner after Ridley Scott viewed some of his performances in his earlier movies.
- Rutger showed up for his meeting with Ridley Scott, the director of Blade Runner, with his hair bleached white, wearing flamboyant sunglasses, bright pink satin pants and a white sweater on which was a fox.
- Rutger was somewhat notorious in his early years for doing full-frontal nude scenes.
- People Magazine said of Rutger, "Rutger's acting is worthy of attention because of his vividly strange characters."
- Rutger's role in Blade Runner was the first major success he had in the United States.
- Rutger says the first thing he learned in the U.S. was to believe in his own intuition.
- Rutger claims he was unable to continue working on the freighter ship because he lost interest in sailing. In reality, it was due to his color blindness.
- Rutger had to lie about his age to be able to work on a freighter ship when he was 14.
- Rutger had a long working relationship with Turkish Delight director Paul Verhoeven.
- Rutger's drill sergeant believed that he would make a fine military officer.
- Rutger only lasted 5 months in the Dutch military.
- Rutger was 29 when he first appeared in a movie.
- Rutger's first movie, Turkish Delight, set box office records in Holland, bringing in an estimated 3,300,000 people.
- Rutger honed his acting skills by going to North Holland and performing for farmers.
- Rutger's first film, Turkish Delight, was voted "Film of the Century" in Holland.
- Rutger has appeared in over 80 movies.
- Rutger was awarded the prestigious "Actor of the Century" in Holland in 1999.
- In the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Rutger mostly acted in straight to video and cable tv movies.
- When Rutger was enrolled in drama school, he spent most of his time in Amsterdam coffee houses and wrote poetry, instead of studying.
- Rutger has three sisters.
- Rutger was mostly raised by a nanny while growing up, as his parents were touring actors.
- Rutger has blonde hair and blue eyes.
- Rutger's wife Ineke is a painter and sculptor.
- Rutger fathered one daughter from each of his marriages.
- Rutger has been married twice, once in the sixties, and once in 1985.
- Rutger is six foot, two inches tall.
- Rutger was expelled from drama school because of lack of attendance.
- Rutger's parents are actors, and they operated an acting school in Amsterdam.
- The Dutch Mail Service issued a stamp in 1995 with Rutger on it, taken from a scene in Turkish Delight.
- Rutger speaks fluent German.
- Rutger was the original choice for the lead in the film RoboCop.
- Rutger got out of the Dutch Navy by convincing his superiors he was mentally unfit to serve. He was then sent to an institution.
- Rutger is color-blind.
- Rutger became known for several humorous appearances in Guinness commercials in the early 1990's.
- Rutger has been called the "Dutch Paul Newman."
- Rutger appeared in Kylie Minogue's music video for "On a Night Like This."
- Rutger has one daughter from his first marriage.
- Rutger married his second wife, Ineke, in 1985.
- Rutger set up an AIDS research foundation called the Rutger Hauer Starfish Foundation.
- Rutger is an enviromentalist, and he fought for the release of Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson, who sunk an illegal whaling vessel.
- 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.
