Klaus Kinski - biography

“I’d have been better than Adolf Hitler.  I could’ve delivered his speeches a lot better, that’s for certain.”

“The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.”

“I am dying of hunger.”

“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.”

“It’s better directing myself than working with most of the assholes I’ve made films with.”

“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, more than ever.”

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

“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.”

“I choose films with the shortest schedule and the most money.”

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

“Fun?  There is no fun.”

“History and culture are death.”

“Why have I had this life?  If I knew, I wouldn’t have done it.”

“I make movies for money - exclusively for money!  So I sell myself at the highest price.  Exactly like a prostitute.”

“But words - words are not enough!”

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

“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.”

“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 didn’t choose solitude.”

“I don’t need anybody to tell me how to be alive.”

“I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter.  All of these exist in me.”

“I sell myself for the highest price.  Exactly like a prostitute.  There is no difference.”

“It is the Nobel Prize I want.  It’s worth 400,000 dollars.”

“It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves.  If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists.  Otherwise, throw it away.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The dimensions of my feelings are too violent.”

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

“What does this mean: entertainer?  Entertain what?  Who?”

“When you are there, you are.  With words, you aren’t.”

“Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one.  So there was always another one.  I can’t explain this.”

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

“You don’t need a framework.  You need a painting, not a frame.”

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

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

Klaus Kinski has appeared in the following films:
Morituri (1948)
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
La Paura (1954)
Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955)
Kinder, Mütter und ein General (1955)
Hanussen (1955)
Um Thron und Liebe (1955)
Waldwinter (1956)
Geliebte Corinna (1956)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Der Rächer (1960)
Die Toten Augen von London (1961)
Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen (1961)
Bankraub in der Rue Latour (1961)
Die Seltsame Gräfin (1961)
Das Rätsel der roten Orchidee (1962)
The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Der Rote Rausch (1962)
Die Tür mit den 7 Schlössern (1962)
Das Gasthaus an der Themse (1962)
Der Zinker (1963)
Die Schwarze Kobra (1963)
Der Schwarze Abt (1963)
Das Indische Tuch (1963)
Scotland Yard jagt Dr. Mabuse (1963)
Kali Yug, la dea della vendetta (1963)
Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Witwe (1963)
Piccadilly null Uhr zwölf (1963)
Der Letzte Ritt nach Santa Cruz (1964)
Wartezimmer zum Jenseits (1964)
Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß (1964)
Winnetou – 2. Teil (1964)
Das Geheimnis der chinesischen Nelke (1964)
Das Verrätertor (1964)
Neues vom Hexer (1965)
The Dirty Game (1965)
Estambul 65 (1965)
The Pleasure Girls (1965)
Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Circus of Fear (1966)
Our Man in Marrakesh (1966)
Le Carnaval des barbouzes (1966)
Das Geheimnis der gelben Mönche (1966)
El Chuncho, quien sabe? (1966)
Die Blaue Hand (1967)
The Million Eyes of Sumuru (1967)
Five Golden Dragons (1967)
Ad ogni costo (1967)
Mister Zehn Prozent – Miezen und Moneten (1968)
Coplan sauve sa peau (1968)
Ognuno per sé (1968)
Se incontri Sartana prega per la tua morte (1968)
L’Uomo, l’orgoglio, la vendetta (1968)
A qualsiasi prezzo (1968)
I Bastardi (1968)
Il Grande silenzio (1968)
Bastardi, I (1968)
Sono Sartana, il vostro becchino (1969)
5 per l’inferno (1969)
Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969)
Due volte Giuda (1969)
A doppia faccia (1969)
La Legge dei gangsters (1969)
Il Dito nella piaga (1969)
Paroxismus (1969)
Mir hat es immer Spaß gemacht (1970)
E Dio disse a Caino (1970)
Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht (1970)
La Peau de torpedo (1970)
Appuntamento col disonore (1970)
Leopardi di Churchill, I (1970)
La Belva (1970)
L’Occhio del ragno (1971)
Giù la testa... hombre (1971)
Per una bara piena di dollari (1971)
Lo chiamavano King (1971)
La Bestia uccide a sangue freddo (1971)
Prega il morto e ammazza il vivo (1971)
La Vendetta è un piatto che si serve freddo (1971)
Nella stretta morsa del ragno (1971)
Il Venditore di morte (1971)
Black Killer (1971)
Il Mio nome è Shangai Joe (1972)
Il Ritorno di Clint il solitario (1972)
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
Eroi all’inferno (1973)
La Mano spietata della legge (1973)
La Morte ha sorriso all’assassino (1973)
Chi ha rubato il tesoro dello scia? (1974)
La Mano che nutre la morte (1974)
Le Amanti del mostro (1974)
Le Orme (1975)
L’Important c’est d’aimer (1975)
Il Ritorno di Shanghai Joe (1975)
Un Genio, due compari, un pollo (1975)
Das Netz (1975)
Jack the Ripper (1976)
Lifespan (1976)
Nuit d’or (1976)
Mivtsa Yonatan (1977)
Madame Claude (1977)
Mort d’un pourri (1977)
La Chanson de Roland (1978)
Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht (1979)
Zoo zéro (1979)
Woyzeck (1979)
Haine (1980)
La Femme enfant (1980)
Schizoid (1980)
Les Fruits de la passion (1981)
Venom (1981)
Buddy Buddy (1981)
Love and Money (1982)
Fitzcarraldo (1982)
The Soldier (1982)
Android (1982)
The Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud (1984)
Geheimcode: Wildgänse (1984)
The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
Revenge of the Stolen Stars (1985)
Creature (1985)
Kommando Leopard (1985)
El Caballero del dragón (1985)
Crawlspace (1986)
Cobra Verde (1987)
Grandi cacciatori (1988)
Nosferatu a Venezia (1988)
Kinski Paganini (1989)
Mein liebster Feind – Klaus Kinski (1999)


Klaus Kinski directed the following films:
Nosferatu a Venezia (1988)
Kinski Paganini (1989)