Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinskiwas a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and was a leading role actor in the films of Werner Herzog, including Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo, and Cobra Verde. He was also known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns, most notably For a Few Dollars More, A Bullet for the General, The Great Silence, And God Said to Cain, Shoot the Living and Pray for the Deadand A Genius, Two Partners...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth18 October 1926
CountryGermany
I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.
I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul ... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price.
I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.
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.
It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.
You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.
If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.
I am dying of hunger.
The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.
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
The dimensions of my feelings are too violent
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.
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.
What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.