Quotes by Klaus Kinski - Page 1

Fun? There is no fun.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Fun
No Fun
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I am dying of hunger.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Dying
Hunger
I Am Dying Am
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I didn't choose solitude.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Solitude
Choose
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But words - words are not enough!
Klaus Kinski / Actor
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The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Acting
Ultimate
Destroy
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The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Dimensions
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I make movies for money, exclusively for money.
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I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Alive
Needs
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It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Nobel
Nobel Prize
Prize
Want
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When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.
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Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Beast
Born
Talent
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In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Cold
Cold Heart
Way
Me Way Everything
Concerning
Leaves
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Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Claws
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Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Done
Ifs
This Life
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You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Framework
Needs
Painting
Frame
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I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Disease
People
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You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Finding Yourself
Ghetto
Leap
Wall
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Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Cleaning
Movie Making
Toilets
Making Movies
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I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Differences
Highest
Sells
Sell
No Difference
Price
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People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
People
Terrible
Beautiful People See
Therefore
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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Men
Judging
Real
Should
Judge
Man
His
Mainly
Virtues
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I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Jesus
Church
Sea
Superstar
Official
Tolerated
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The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Real
Sex
Tourists
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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 / Actor
Bed
Seconds
Three
Years
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What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Savings
Understood
Account
Dollar
Savings Account
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I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Certain
Has Beens
Speech
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I didn't want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had to learn this.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Dimensions
Feelings
Violent
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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 / Actor
Explain
Whenever
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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 / Actor
Bird
Hurt
Sky
Window
Cage
Hurts
Near
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Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
Drivers
Driving
Hate
People
Stink
Taxi
Cemeteries
Dead
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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 / Actor
Dream
Desire
Drink
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Hunger
Thirst
Wish
Desires
Tale
Wishes
Your Dream
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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 / Actor
Advice
Directors
Mean
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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 / Actor
Body
Sensitive
Treats
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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 / Actor
Protect
Sensitive
Your Body
Yourself Your Keep
Badly
Treat
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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 / Actor
Grief
Joy
Laughter
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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 / Actor
Kids
Running
Thinking
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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 / Actor
Coward
Sixteen
Want
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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 / Actor
Lakes
Over You
Water
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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 / Actor
Plague
Sequence
Hit
Breaks
Catch
Shoot
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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 / Actor
Mountain
Truth Is
Lake
Reaction
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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 / Actor
Running
Broken Heart
Fists
Hurt
Beat
Hurts
Escaped
Waits
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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 / Actor
Directors
Fighting
Wish
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Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude.
Klaus Kinski / Actor
I Can
Want
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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 / Actor
Animal
Elements
Millions
People
Soul
Myself Me People
Animals
Centuries
Exist
Millions Of People
Plants
Souls
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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 / Actor
Ocean
Book
Strong
Wind
Exists
Otherwise
Throw
Waves
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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 / Actor
Apartment
Doors
Hands
Radio
Wall
Years Ago
Door
Fist
Hole
Next Door
Struck
Tool
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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 / Actor
Different
Faults
Would Be
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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 / Actor
Keys
Letting Go
Order
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