Klaus Kinski (born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski; 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor.
I make movies for money, exclusively for money.
I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.
The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
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 would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better. . . that's for certain.
I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.
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.
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.
Once, I took a taxi. I hate those limousines. They stink and their drivers have been driving dead people to the cemeteries.
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
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.
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!
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.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
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.
In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.
Where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent
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.
The dimensions of my feelings are too violent