Thomas Kretschmann famous quotes

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Honesty #Acting #Sensitivity

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Happiness #Jobs #Laughter

I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Independent #Leaving #Stubborn

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Distance #Knowing #People

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Witty #Character #Comedy

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Desire #Energy

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Tvs #Germany #Culture

I experienced a lot, and achieved nearly everything I wanted. I can enjoy that today. Go to bed at nine in the evening, because my child wakes up around seven, without having the feeling that I missed or are missing something.
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Children #Missing #Feelings

I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
-- Thomas Kretschmann

#Opportunity #Hands #Different

Spirituality does not require that you work hard toward achieving a result in the future as much as it requires you to be fully present, sincere and committed now, with absolute honesty and willingness to uncover and let go of any illusions that come between you and the realization of Reality.

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission.

Acting is really about having the courage to fail in front of people.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

I honor and protect my sensitivity.

Anybody who wears their feelings on their sleeve and has a harder, crusty shell - like I do - is definitely protecting an inner sensitivity.

But I think that sensitivity is also a good counsellor when it comes to enforcing one's interests.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.