Klaus Kinski Quotes

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

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.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

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

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

I`d have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could`ve delivered his speeches a lot better. That`s for certain.

But words - words are not enough!

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.

Fun? There is no fun.

I don`t need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

So I sell myself, for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.

Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren`t.

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.

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.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can`t explain this.

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.

It is the Nobel Prize I want. It`s worth $400,000.

I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

You have to protect yourself, your body, your being. You cannot treat it badly; you have to keep it, make as sensitive as possible.

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

I am dying of hunger.

I choose films with the shortest schedule and the most money.

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

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.

You don`t need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.

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.

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

Man muß den Menschen vor allem nach seinen Lastern beurteilen. Tugenden können vorgetäuscht sein. Laster sind echt. (One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.)

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.

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

I didn`t choose solitude.

I`m like a wild animal who`s behind bars. I need air, I need space.

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

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn`t have done it.

Wer mich beleidigt, entscheide ich. (I decide who offends me.)