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.

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  Dream, Wish, Desire

  Klaus Kinski (1997). “Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski”, Penguin Books

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

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  Real, Men, Judging

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  People, Disease

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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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  Letting Go, Keys, Order

  "Kinski Uncut: The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski". Book by Klaus Kinski, p. 72-73, 1996.

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• The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

  Klaus Kinski

  Acting, Ultimate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Fighting, Wish, Directors

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

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  Beautiful, People, Terrible

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• 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.

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  Strong, Ocean, Book

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• 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.

  Klaus Kinski

  Broken Heart, Running, Hurt

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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

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  Differences, Highest, Sells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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  Hurt, Sky, Bird

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

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  Needs, Painting, Framework

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• I am dying of hunger.

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  Dying, Hunger

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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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  Lakes, Water, Over You

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• Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it

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  Done, This Life, Ifs

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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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  Different, Would Be, Faults

  "Klaus Kinski: The Master of Screen Depravity Speaks". Interview with Ed Naha, Fangoria #28, July 1983.

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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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  Animal, People, Soul

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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

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  Speech, Certain, Has Beens

  "Klaus Kinski: The Master of Screen Depravity Speaks". Interview with Ed Naha, Fangoria #28, July 1983.

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

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  Wall, Ghetto, Finding Yourself

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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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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  Mean, Advice, Directors

  "Klaus Kinski: The Master of Screen Depravity Speaks". Interview with Ed Naha, Fangoria #28, July 1983.

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• But words - words are not enough!

  Klaus Kinski

  Enough

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

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  Hate, People, Driving

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• I didn't choose solitude.

  Klaus Kinski

  Solitude

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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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  Jesus, Sea, Church

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

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  Toilets, Cleaning, Movie Making

  "Klaus Kinski & The Thing" by Marcelle Clements. Playboy, Vol. 32, Iss. 11, November 1985.

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