Klaus Kinski Quotes

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

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

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

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn’t have done it.

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

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

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can’t explain this.

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

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

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

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.

The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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