Zitate von Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski
Geburtstag: 18. Oktober 1926
Todesdatum: 23. November 1991
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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„ach, gebt mir meinen Tod, damit ich bleibe“
— Klaus Kinski
Fieber: Tagebuch Eines Aussätzigen: Ein Bildband Mit Bisher Unbekannten Gedichten Und Fotografien
„ach! wüßtet ihr wie schwer es ist,
wenn man gehängt ist und nicht sterben kann!!“
— Klaus Kinski
Kinski Spricht Kinski Fieber ; Tagebuch Eines Aussätzigen
„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
„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
„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
„The German government writes me that it has awarded me the supreme distinction for an actor: the Gold Film Ribbon. What gall! Who gave those shitheads the right to award me anything? Did it never occur to them that there might be somebody who doesn't want their shit? What filthy arrogance to award me - me, of all people! - a prize! What does this prize mean, anyway? Is it a reward? For what? For my pains, sufferings, despair, tears? A prize for every hell, every dying, every resurrection? Prizes for death and life? Prizes for passion, for hate and love? And how did you shitheads intend to hand me the prize? As a gift? As a favour, like those tasteless hosts that the pope distributes like fast food? I'll kick you! Or do I come submissive, whimpering? I'll kick you again! And there's not even a check. It's outrageous!“
— Klaus Kinski
p. 286
„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
„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
„Werner, nobody will read this book if I don't write bad stuff about you. If I wrote that we get along well together, nobody would buy it. The scum only wants to hear about the dirt, all the time.“
— Klaus Kinski
As quoted by Werner Herzog, in My Best Fiend, (1999)
„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
