Beginning Quote by Natalie Portman

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

— Agnes Obel

If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World War II?…

— Erik Larson

I went to Berlin for a year and a half, and that's where I learned about culture and art and everything. Before that, I…

— Lea Seydoux

“More riveting to me in the end than the politics of Berlin was the vast social experiment its division had become... it was possible…

— Krista Tippett

What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care...…

— Agnes Obel

I've seen things change and people forget: the history of Berlin, the history of queer struggle, the history of AIDS, the history of New…

— John Cameron Mitchell

My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

— Marcus Samuelsson

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

— Eva Zeisel

Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to…

— Whoopi Goldberg

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and…

— Michael Sheen

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It…

— Janet Fitch

Berlin is one of my favorite cities in the world. I feel like the energy is very youthful. It has such an important history,…

— Mark Zuckerberg