Klaus Kinski Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

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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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• The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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Birth:	18th October, 1926
Death:	23rd November, 1991
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Actor

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