Quotations and phrases - Klaus 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

But words - words are not enough!
-- Klaus Kinski

Fun? There is no fun.
-- Klaus Kinski

I am dying of hunger.
-- Klaus Kinski

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
-- Klaus 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 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 didn't choose solitude.
-- Klaus Kinski

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.
-- Klaus 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

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

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.
-- Klaus 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

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
-- 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

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.
-- 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

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

Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
-- Klaus Kinski

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

You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
-- 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

You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
-- Klaus Kinski

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