„Schlechtes Benehmen halten die Leute doch nur deswegen für eine Art Vorrecht, weil keiner ihnen aufs Maul haut.“
— Klaus Kinski
Interview im Stern Nr. 12 (15.03.1979) S. 106-120
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Klaus Kinski
Geburtstag: 18. Oktober 1926
Todesdatum: 23. November 1991
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Klaus Kinski war ein deutscher Schauspieler. Er ist der Vater von Pola, Nastassja und Nikolai Kinski.
Er war auf die Darstellung psychopathischer und getriebener Figuren spezialisiert und zählte in diesem Rollenfach auch international zu den gefragtesten Filmschauspielern. Als künstlerisch herausragend gilt seine jahrelange Zusammenarbeit mit dem deutschen Regisseur Werner Herzog, der ihn in Filmen wie Nosferatu – Phantom der Nacht, Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes und Fitzcarraldo engagierte. International bekannt wurde Klaus Kinski zuvor durch Rollen in Edgar-Wallace-Filmen und Italowestern.
Kinski galt als schwierige und zu extremen Gefühls- und Wutausbrüchen neigende Persönlichkeit.
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US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und FilmproduzentZitate Klaus Kinski
„ach, gebt mir meinen Tod, damit ich bleibe“
— Klaus Kinski
Fieber: Tagebuch Eines Aussätzigen: Ein Bildband Mit Bisher Unbekannten Gedichten Und Fotografien
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„ach! wüßtet ihr wie schwer es ist,
wenn man gehängt ist und nicht sterben kann!!“
— Klaus Kinski
Kinski Spricht Kinski Fieber ; Tagebuch Eines Aussätzigen
„Wer mich beleidigt, entscheide ich.“
— Klaus Kinski
Biografie in der Internet Movie Database
„Die deutsche Sprache ist eine der schönsten und ausdrucksvollsten aller Sprachen - wenn man sich ihrer Kraft bedient! Ich verlange die Freiheit, die ein Schriftsteller, ja ein Dichter für sich in Anspruch nimmt.“
— Klaus Kinski
Autobiographie "Ich brauche Liebe", Heyne München 1991, Einleitung, zitiert auf klaus-kinski. de
„ASSHOLES! Do you ask a car crash for another take? Do you ask a volcano for another take? Do you ask the storm for another take?“
— Klaus Kinski
On directors asking him for another take.
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„What they teach in these acting schools is incredible, hair-raising crap. The Actors Studio in America is supposed to be the worst. There the students learn how to be natural - that is, they flop around, pick their noses, scratch their balls. This bullshit is known as "method acting." How can you "teach" someone to be an actor? How can you teach someone how and what to feel and how to express it? How can someone teach me how to laugh or cry? How to be glad and how to be sad? What pain is, or despair or happiness? What poverty and hunger are? What hate and love are? What desire is, and fulfillment? No, I don't want to waste my time with these arrogant morons.“
— Klaus Kinski
p. 59
„I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price.“
— Klaus Kinski
Context: At a performance everything works out on its own. I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul. Everything else is taken care of by the life one has to live without sparing oneself. You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price. I become so sensitive that I can't live under normal conditions. That's why the hours between performances are worst.
p. 72-73
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„Steven Spielberg offers me a part in Raiders of the Lost Ark... But as much as I'd like to do a movie with Spielberg, the script is as moronically shitty as so many other flicks of this ilk. At the same time, Claude Lelouch is nagging me to do his Les Uns et les Autres (Bolero). I'd be willing to do this project, but not for the shabby pittance that this rat offers me.“
— Klaus Kinski
p. 294
„I don't know how this will end. All I know is Nanhoï's love. My son is my life. I believe in the magic of this love. He is the embodiment of life to me. The embodiment of beauty. Through him I'll find redemption and salvation. Then the wound in my soul - the wound I thought would never scar over - will stop bleeding. I thought I would have to tear it open once it began to heal. Back then, when I felt I couldn't stop being what is called an actor, when I told myself I was only doing it for the money and that it could be worse. Now, today, I'd rather be poor, but without nightmares and without the torture. If only I could! I wish I'd never been an actor! I wish I'd never had success! I'd rather have been a streetwalker, selling my body, than selling my tears and my laughter, my grief and joy.“
— Klaus Kinski
p. 316
„I have made many things wrong in my life. I should have made many things better in my life, not only to Nastassja but many things. If someone said to me, 'You did everything wrong in your life,' I would say, 'Okay, maybe you're right.' But my way is the only way I can exist. I can feel and express things to understand how true somethings is. People in my life have tried to change me, and I have blown up even more violently and I said, 'What, do you really want to distort me?' What's left, you have to do it your way. I don't need a Bible to tell me I'm doing wrong a hundred million times in my life. Everything I did wrong in my life I am suffering a long time. It's coming back and back and back and back to me for years. I am not ashamed to tell myself what I am doing wrong, but there must always be a way to understand that's all I can do. What I want to say is I tried, okay, I tried, and I'm not breaking my head that it's not happened. It's like a growing plant. This tiny things is coming out, you can feel it coming out, it's breaking through, so it may be one day that she will understand many more things than she understands today. Nobody can come to me and say, 'Why haven't you seen this and why and why.' I know what I have to do.“
— Klaus Kinski
As quoted in Denise Worrell (1989), Icons: Intimate Portraits.
„How can anyone believe that you can "learn" how to feel and learn how to express it? How can anyone teach another person how to laugh and how to cry? How to be cheerful and how to be sad? Teach them what pain is, and despair, and desire, and passion? Hate and love? How can anyone waste their own and somebody else's time with that idiocy? But far worse than the morons who think they can learn these things are the people who claim they can teach them. In the end, they teach bad manners. If one of their trained poodles sits down in public, he doesn't sit, he slouches - which is supposed to mean that his behavior is "natural." He or she scratches his or her head then picks his or her nose, which is supposed to mean that he or she has no complexes and acts very spontaneously. So this is what New York talk shows look like.“
— Klaus Kinski
On method acting. p. 313
