Best 34 quotes of Klaus Kinski on MyQuotes

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.

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.

I am dying of hunger.

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 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 want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had to learn this.

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 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.

In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.

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 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.

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

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

On working with director Werner Herzog: 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.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

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.

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.

The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!

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

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

Working with a great director is wonderful for an actor because it means that you're not forced to take the advice of an idiot.

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

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

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

ach! wüßtet ihr wie schwer es ist, wenn man gehängt ist und nicht sterben kann!!

Christus hat unsterbliches Leben geschaffen durch das, was Menschen durch ihn begriffen haben. Das ist Kunst.

In my fortress, in the Via Appia Antica in Rome, I wrote the first script for my film PAGANINI. It was not a script in the common sense. Not even a testament. And yet it was more than that: A shorthand note, which I had received on a wavelength of an earlier life over the distance of centuries away . For the time being, I did not require more. The structure of my film originated in the instinct: Notes. Notes of music. Notes of captured images (and dialogues). Notes of feelings. Everything else I would decide in the course of the actual shooting.

Most likely, my film could have been compared to a highly sensible musical clip. An operatic musical clip. At that time, I had no idea of this expression. I did not puzzle my head over the form of my film, the structure arose, as I said before, from alone and urged me to commit this structure to paper. Indications, suggestions, just sufficed. The audience should have the liberty to keep on thinking, conceiving, living. My film had to remain a fragment. Abstract it its form. Yet harmonical and first hand. It would have never occurred to me to lash up what I wanted to express into a waist coat of idiotically trimmed up film plots for the audience: with their meticulous and dictarioral logic and continutity. The attempt to wedge Paganini into the usual form of a movie, would have resulted in immuring him alive. For he did live – in me.

Six days and six nights I was writing in a paranoid impulse. Full of fear, that the commenced metamorphosis – the reincarnation of the spirit of a dead – might have been disrupted.

Slavery is an element of the human heart...to our ruin.

This is one of the most remarkable erotic books of our time – an eruptive demonstration of the latest human possibilities! I place Kinski next to Henry Miller. - Hans Hellmut Kirst

This Satan who ruled over the lush dreams of the female sex.