Klaus Kinski

“Fun? There is no fun.”

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

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

“I sell myself for the highest price. Exactly like a prostitute. There is no difference.”

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

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

“Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.”

“I could be with a woman in a bed, for weeks even, and it would seem to me like three seconds. Or 300 years.”

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

“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.”

“You don't need a framework. You need a painting, not a frame.”

“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.”

“The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.”

“It is the Nobel Prize I want. It's worth $400,000.”

“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.”

“Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.”

“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.”

“I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.”

“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 make movies for money, exclusively for money.”