Klaus Kinski Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.

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.

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

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

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.

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

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

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

But words - words are not enough!

I didn't choose solitude.

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

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

I am dying of hunger.

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

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 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.

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

At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.

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

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.

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.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude.

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

I make movies for money, exclusively for money.

The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!

I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.

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.