Nastassja Kinski - biography

“Actors, after all, dream.”

“I always fall in love while I’m making a film.  It’s such an intense thing, being absorbed into the world of a movie.  It’s like discovering you have a fatal illness - you live and love twice as deeply.  Then you drop out of it, like a snakeskin, and you’re cold and naked.”

“I don’t understand acting except when I’m doing it.  And sometimes not even then.”

“I’d also like to do a play.  I’ve never done theatre, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I’d like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.”

“It’s true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children.  They play.”

“I want everything.  Not that I want everything right now, but I do want everything.”

“It’s pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once.  Especially when you haven’t done much and are a celebrity.”

“Having children is what a woman is born for, really.”

“You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.”

“But when it really happens I’m very fascinated, I’m waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?”

“And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.”

“I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.”

“I want to do movies but not talk about them.”

“To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn’t mean anything.”

“You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you’re not really responsible for what you’ve done.”

“It should be only a part of my life, but it isn’t.  I have only one thing: my work.”

“I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.”

“I love men who make me laugh.”

“It’s so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child.  So that’s my goal.”

“Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.”

“I could watch her movies forever.  Whether you were a dog or a cat or a woman or a guy, you just loved her.”

“My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me.  They didn’t put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.”

“I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.”

“I especially love swearing in Italian.”

“Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.”

“I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen.  That’s when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.”

“I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music.  The slow stuff.  And Billie Holiday.”

“I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.”

“I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.”

“I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.”

“The years go so fast.  I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.”

“Water for me is so essential, like swimming.”

Nastassja Kinski has appeared in the following films:
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (1972)
Falsche Bewegung (1975)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
Tess (1979)
Cat People (1982)
One from the Heart (1982)
Exposed (1983)
La Lune dans le caniveau (1983)
Maria’s Lovers (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984)
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
Revolution (1985)
Harem (1985)
Maladie d’amour (1987)
In una notte di chiaro di luna (1989)
Magdalene (1989)
In weiter Ferne, so nah! (1993)
Faraway, So Close! (1993)
Crackerjack (1994)
Terminal Velocity (1994)
Somebody Is Waiting (1996)
Fathers’ Day (1997)
One Night Stand (1997)
Little Boy Blue (1997)
Playing by Heart (1998)
Savior (1998)
Susan’s Plan (1998)
Your Friends & Neighbors (1998)
The Lost Son (1999)
The Claim (2000)
Red Letters (2000)
Town and Country (2001)
An American Rhapsody (2001)
Paradise Found (2003)
À ton image (2004)