Nastassja Kinski Quotes

"The years went by so fast and, even though I`ve had children, which makes me feel I`ve lived a long time, I feel I didn`t really grow up. I want to fulfill the desire I have to do things that are beautiful and meaningful."

On Roman Polanski, who directed her in Tess (1979): "As a director, he was 10 times more wonderful than as a lover."

(on Marcello Mastroianni) I could fall in love with Marcello even though he is older than my father.

(on Klaus Kinski) I have never met a man like my father. He is so mad, terrible and vehement at the same time. Because of him, I never knew anything other than passion. When I began to meet other people I saw that it wasn`t normal.

It`s true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

I`d also like to do a play. I`ve never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I`d like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

Actors, after all, dream.

You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you`re not really responsible for what you`ve done.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.

I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

I want to do movies but not talk about them.

It`s so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that`s my goal.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn`t mean anything.

The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

It should be only a part of my life, but it isn`t. I have only one thing: my work.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

It`s pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven`t done much and are a celebrity.

Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That`s when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

But when it really happens I`m very fascinated, I`m waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

I love men who make me laugh.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn`t put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.