Klaus Kinski Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”