Quotes by Klaus Kinski

• You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.
• 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 am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
• People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.
• But words - words are not enough!
• I am dying of hunger.
• 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.
• I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.
• I didn't choose solitude.
• I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.
• 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, more than ever.
• The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
• 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.
• Fun? There is no fun.
• 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.
• One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
• It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
• In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.
• I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
• I make movies for money, exclusively for money.
• About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie.