I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent from and leaving Germany.

Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

I thought that if you come across as a freak, there will be some kind of distance. Maybe the distance became excessive. I realized that people were afraid of me without knowing me.

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

I figured out, I guess, that the job just makes me happy if it's not number one. So if it all works, great. If it doesn't, I still go home, look at my kids, and I have a big smile on my face.

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.

You are both daring and unscrupulous, and you think fast. I have been looking for a person with those particular characteristics. Also I noticed you speak Babylonian.

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

You see something happening and you bang away at it. Either you get what you saw or you get something else--and whichever is better you print.

This country wants to live in the illusion that it is tolerant but also wants to be able to practice intolerance.

The research. It is always the best part of writing. And, of course, it is the great excuse to travel.

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself?