Top 77 Kinski Quotes
#1. She was a voice with a body as afterthought, a wry smile that sailed through heavy traffic. Give her a history and she'd disappear.
Eric Packer about Vija Kinski
Don DeLillo
#2. He was was especially excited about Aguirre, the Wrath of God. 'Look at this crazy dude,' he yelled, pointing at Klaus Kinski, who on the cover is wearing a Viking helmet and looks like a psychopath.
Jesse Andrews
#3. It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
Klaus Kinski
#4. 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
#5. The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski
#6. One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
Klaus Kinski
#7. Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Nastassja Kinski
#8. I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken
Nastassja Kinski
#9. Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
Klaus Kinski
#10. When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.
Klaus Kinski
#11. 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
#12. I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.
Nastassja Kinski
#13. It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski
#15. I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes
Nastassja Kinski
#16. Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
Klaus Kinski
#17. 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.
Klaus Kinski
#18. I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski
#19. Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Nastassja Kinski
#20. I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
Klaus Kinski
#21. 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.
Klaus Kinski
#22. But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Nastassja Kinski
#23. You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
Klaus Kinski
#24. You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Nastassja Kinski
#25. I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.
Nastassja Kinski
#26. I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.
Nastassja Kinski
#27. Slavery is an element of the human heart ... to our ruin.
Klaus Kinski
#28. I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.
Klaus Kinski
#29. I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.
Nastassja Kinski
#30. 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
#32. What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.
Klaus Kinski
#33. In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.
Klaus Kinski
#34. 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
#35. When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.
Nastassja Kinski
#36. 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.
Klaus Kinski
#37. 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
#38. It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
Nastassja Kinski
#40. 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
#41. I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.
Klaus Kinski
#42. 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
#43. I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski
#44. I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.
Nastassja Kinski
#45. You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
Nastassja Kinski
#46. It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
Nastassja Kinski
#47. 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.
Klaus Kinski
#48. 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
#49. It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.
Nastassja Kinski
#50. I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski
#52. Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
Klaus Kinski
#53. The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.
Klaus Kinski
#54. Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.
Klaus Kinski
#55. I make movies for money, exclusively for money.
Klaus Kinski
#58. 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
#60. 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.
Klaus Kinski
#62. Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski
#63. I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better ... that's for certain.
Klaus Kinski
#65. I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
Klaus Kinski
#66. I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.
Nastassja Kinski
#67. 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
#68. People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.
Klaus Kinski
#69. You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
Klaus Kinski
#70. 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
#71. My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
Nastassja Kinski
#72. The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.
Klaus Kinski
#73. To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Nastassja Kinski
#74. I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski
#76. The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
Klaus Kinski
#77. 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!
Klaus Kinski
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