Lotte Lenya Quotes

• Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience.

  Lotte Lenya

  Training, Substitutes

  "Fictional character: Rosa Klebb". "From Russia with Love", www.imdb.com. 1963.

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• [I have] a heavenly vase full of autumn leaves today. They look so beautiful. How much closer to God can one get? And a beautiful blue heron flew over the brook. Nature can make me cry faster than anything.

  Lotte Lenya

  Beautiful, Autumn, Blue

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• [After World War II:] By now we are used to the rubble, which they clear up religiously and indefatigably. What a determination to get on top again! One could admire it, if one would not be afraid that somewhere lurks another Hitler. But you can't seem to find a single Nazi in Germany! Nobody was one! It was all a dream!

  Lotte Lenya

  Dream, Determination, War

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• When I do a film that has nothing to do with Kurt Weill, then I am happy, I am on my own. But in a Kurt Weill work I am as nervous as a cat. A burden falls on my shoulders. I feel a crushing responsibility.

  Lotte Lenya

  Crush, Fall, Cat

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• [Bertholt] Brecht looked very thin, like a herring with very sensitive hands.

  Lotte Lenya

  Hands, Sensitive, Brecht

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