Kinski Quotes & Sayings

I didn't choose solitude. — Klaus Kinski

But words - words are not enough! — Klaus Kinski

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

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

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind. — Nastassja Kinski

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

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

It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew him, and Kinski himself, that he never recovered from Woyzeck. But what was the ultimate result? If you are the viewer of this film, Kinski's portrayal shocks your feelings out of the vault of intellectualizing or passive observing. He forces you to feel with him, to align yourself with your buried emotions. He outs your sensitivity. Is this not something Christ-like? It is, for my money. Kinski is the pure cure for the 21st-century disease - the numbness unto droning. — Cintra Wilson

He was especially excited about Aguirre, the Wrath of God. "Look at this crazy dude," he yelled, point at Klaus Kinski, who on the cover is wearing a Viking helmet and looks like a psychopath. So
with Dad's permission
we put the film in and watched it. This would turn out to be the single most important thing ever to happen in our lives. — Jesse Andrews

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000. — Klaus 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

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of. — Nastassja Kinski

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

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame. — Klaus Kinski

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

I am dying of hunger. — Klaus Kinski

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds. — Klaus Kinski

Michael Heseltine, a wild-haired visionary, Klaus Kinski to Margaret's Thatcher's Werner Herzog, pushed Docklands across the Thames to the East Greenwich Peninsula. The Millennium Dome concept was a remake of 'Fitzcarraldo', a film in which suborned natives (expendable extras) drag a paddle steamer over a hill in order to force a short cut to more exploitable territory. The point being to bring Enrico Caruso, one of the gods of opera, to an upstream trading post. An insane achievement mirrored in the rebranding of the Dome, after its long and expensive limbo, as the O2 Arena, a popular showcase for cryogenic rock acts:Norma Desmond divas and the resurrected Michael Jackson, whose virtual rebirth,post-mortem, gave the shabby tent the status of a riverside cathedral. — Iain Sinclair

Water for me is so essential, like swimming. — 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

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

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

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

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself. — Klaus Kinski

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

I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul ... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price. — Klaus Kinski

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

Fun? There is no fun. — Klaus Kinski

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

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

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better ... that's for certain. — Klaus Kinski

Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything. — Nastassja Kinski

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance. — Nastassja Kinski

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play. — Nastassja Kinski

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

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

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said. — Klaus Kinski

Having children is what a woman is born for, really. — Nastassja Kinski

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing. — Nastassja Kinski

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't. — Klaus Kinski

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

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much. — Nastassja Kinski

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

I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away. — Nastassja Kinski

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive. — Klaus Kinski

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes — Nastassja Kinski

I love men who make me laugh. — Nastassja Kinski

To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything. — Nastassja Kinski

Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent. — Klaus Kinski

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

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

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. — Klaus Kinski

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

The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex. — Klaus Kinski

Actors, after all, dream. — Nastassja Kinski

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

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