Klaus Kinski Quotes

"You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Painting)

"Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Life)

"Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Movies)

"Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Talent)

"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
(Related: Want, Woman)

"When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Words)

"What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Freedom, Nothing)

"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
(Related: Truth, Water, Will)

"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
(Related: Heart)

"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
(Related: Sky)

"The dimensions of my feelings are too violent."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Feelings)

"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
(Related: Being, Body)

"I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Power, Church)

"People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: People)

"But words - words are not enough!"
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Words)

"I am dying of hunger."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Dying, Hunger)

"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
(Related: Food, Dream, Hunger, Wishes)

"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
(Related: Bed, Woman, Years)

"I didn't choose solitude."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Solitude)

"I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive."
- 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
(Related: Fight)

"The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Acting)

"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
(Related: Ocean, Wind)

"Fun? There is no fun."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Fun)

"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
(Related: People, Animals, Plants)

"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Man)

"Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: People, Driving, Hate)

"It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Want, Worth)

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

"I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Difference)

"I make movies for money, exclusively for money."
- Klaus Kinski
(Related: Money, Movies)

"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
(Related: Comedy, Years)