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Klaus Kinski
German
Actor
About the author
What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Nothing
#Freedom
The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Will
#Truth
#Water
Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Heart
Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not to, even if it hurts.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Sky
The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Feelings
You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Being
#Body
I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Power
#Church
People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#People
But words - words are not enough!
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Words
I am dying of hunger.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Hunger
#Dying
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Food
#Dream
#Wishes
#Hunger
I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Years
#Woman
#Bed
I didn't choose solitude.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Solitude
I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Fight
The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Acting
It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Wind
#Ocean
Fun? There is no fun.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Fun
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#People
#Animals
#Plants
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Man
Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#People
#Hate
#Driving
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Want
#Worth
In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Difference
I make movies for money, exclusively for money.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Money
#Movies
About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Years
#Comedy
You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Painting
Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Life
Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Movies
Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Talent
Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Want
#Woman
When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.
Klaus Kinski,
German
Actor
#Words