Klaus Kinski – deutscher Schauspieler (1926–1991), bekannt für seine Zusammenarbeit mit Werner Herzog, etwa in „Aguirre“ und „Fitzcarraldo“.
Zitat des Tages von Klaus Kinski:
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.
The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.
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.
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.
Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this.
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.
I make movies for money, exclusively for money.
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.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.
But words - words are not enough!
You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
You leap over the wall of one ghetto and find yourself in another ghetto.
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.
Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent.
I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.
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 don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.
Why do I continue making movies? Making movies is better than cleaning toilets.
I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.
The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
Fun? There is no fun.
I didn't choose solitude.
Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.
When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.