Klaus Kinski Quotes

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.

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

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

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

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

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.

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

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.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.