Klaus Kinski

“I feel like a tiger in a cage.”

“For me, the camera is a microscope in a way. It's like a microscope that goes inside of you and shows you things you don't want to see.”

“I'm not an actor, I'm a re-actor.”

“You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.”

“I wish I could be a child again, to see the world for the first time.”

“One should not be deceived by the fact that the circumstances of the brutal and inhuman soul are so often ridiculous.”

“I am like a wild animal that has been hurt.”

“People who don't have a choice are victims.”

“I'm not a conventional man.”

“If you want to be an actor, you have to be a child.”

“Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.”

“I don't live in the past. The past lives in me.”