Nastassja Kinski

“To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.”

“It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.”

“You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.”

“Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.”

“It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.”

“I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.”

“Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.”

“Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.”

“But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?”

“And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.”

“I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.”

“I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.”

“I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.”

“Actors, after all, dream.”

“You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.”

“My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.”

“I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.”

“I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.”

“I want to do movies but not talk about them.”

“I love men who make me laugh.”