Klaus Kinski

About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall…

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

I didn't choose solitude.

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

What do you think, that a dollar in a savings account is freedom? Maybe you have understood nothing I have said.

— Klaus Kinski

Put a bird cage near the window so that the bird can see the sky? It's much better to look than not…

— Klaus Kinski

“Ich verbrenne, so wie ich mein ganzes Leben lnag verbrannt bin. Ich weiß nicht, was das heißt.”

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things.…

— Klaus Kinski

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

— Klaus Kinski

But words - words are not enough!

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

I didn't want to be alone, but I had to learn that the dimensions of my feelings are too violent. I had…

— Klaus Kinski

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain…

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I…

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski

The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you…

— Klaus Kinski

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

— Klaus Kinski