Klaus Kinski Quotes

#1. I didn't choose solitude. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#2. You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#3. 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. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#4. I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#5. Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#6. Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#7. Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#8. When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#9. Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#10. One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#11. It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#12. On working with director Werner Herzog: 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. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#13. 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. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#14. At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#15. I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#16. In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#17. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#18. 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. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#19. I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#20. Slavery is an element of the human heart ... to our ruin. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#21. You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#22. If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#23. I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#24. But words - words are not enough! - Author: Klaus Kinski

#25. I make movies for money, exclusively for money. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#26. Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#27. The dimensions of my feelings are too violent. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#28. Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#29. I am dying of hunger. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#30. 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. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#31. 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. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#32. I wish I'd never been an actor. I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and my joy. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#33. 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. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#34. 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. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#35. The street kid in me says, Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it! - Author: Klaus Kinski

#36. The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#37. The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#38. You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#39. People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#40. 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. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#41. I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#42. Fun? There is no fun. - Author: Klaus Kinski

#43. I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better ... that's for certain. - Author: Klaus Kinski