Klaus Kinski Quotes
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I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
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You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
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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.
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I make movies for money, exclusively for money.
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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
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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.
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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.
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In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.
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You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But words - words are not enough!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent
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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.
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I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
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I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.
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The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
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It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
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One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
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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!
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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
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Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
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I am dying of hunger.
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People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.
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When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.
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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.
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