K Kinski Quotes & Sayings

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

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either. — Klaus Kinski

I want to do movies but not talk about them. — Nastassja Kinski

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

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto. — Klaus Kinski

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

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity. — Nastassja Kinski

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent. — Klaus Kinski

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold. — Klaus Kinski

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

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family. — Nastassja Kinski

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

It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work. — Nastassja Kinski

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you. — Nastassja Kinski

Slavery is an element of the human heart ... to our ruin. — Klaus Kinski

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

I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken — Nastassja Kinski

Water for me is so essential, like swimming. — Nastassja Kinski

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it. — Nastassja Kinski

I make movies for money, exclusively for money. — Klaus Kinski

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference. — Klaus Kinski

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

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

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

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

It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal. — Nastassja Kinski

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday. — Nastassja Kinski

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets. — Klaus Kinski

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar. — Klaus Kinski

I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible. — Nastassja Kinski