Barbara Sukowa

Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge -…

— Barbara Sukowa

We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very…

— Barbara Sukowa

In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we…

— Barbara Sukowa

I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity.…

— Barbara Sukowa

To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There's no big love story, no action, no drama.…

— Barbara Sukowa

I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities.

— Barbara Sukowa

I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense…

— Barbara Sukowa

I am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were…

— Barbara Sukowa

They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really…

— Barbara Sukowa

I'm a real optimist.

— Barbara Sukowa

I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in…

— Barbara Sukowa

Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to…

— Barbara Sukowa

In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.

— Barbara Sukowa

I started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don't buy things that don't sound like food, and I've been…

— Barbara Sukowa

You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.

— Barbara Sukowa

For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got…

— Barbara Sukowa

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.

— Barbara Sukowa

I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.

— Barbara Sukowa

I don't think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized…

— Barbara Sukowa

I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was…

— Barbara Sukowa

I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.

— Barbara Sukowa

I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

— Barbara Sukowa

I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.

— Barbara Sukowa

Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

— Barbara Sukowa

When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very young, and I…

— Barbara Sukowa