Klaus Kinski Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Dream #Wish #Desire
“One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Real #Men #Judging
“I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Differences
“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

#Hurt #Sky #Bird
“People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Beautiful #People #Terrible
“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

#Fighting #Wish #Fame
“You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Wall #Ghetto #Finding Yourself
“I didn't choose solitude.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Solitude
“Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Done #This Life
“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

#Lakes #Water #Over You
“The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Sex #Real #Tourists
“I am dying of hunger.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Dying #Hunger
“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

#Laughter #Grief #Joy
“I make movies for money, exclusively for money.”
-- 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

#Different #Would Be #Faults
“I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Speech #Certain
“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

#Mean #Advice #Directors
“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

#Running #Kids #Thinking
“It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Want #Nobel #Prize
“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

#Strong #Ocean #Book
“When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.”
-- Klaus Kinski
“The dimensions of my feelings are too violent”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Feelings #Dimensions #Violent
“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

#Want
“Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Talent #Beast #Born
“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

#Wall #Hands #Years
“I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Jesus #Sea #Church
“Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Hate #People #Driving
“I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Needs #Alive
“You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.”
-- Klaus Kinski

#Needs #Painting #Framework
“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

#Letting Go #Order #Keys

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