Top 20 Quotes & Sayings by Bruno Ganz

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Swiss actor Bruno Ganz.

Last updated on November 22, 2024.

Bruno Ganz was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola, and Wim Wenders, earning widespread recognition with his roles as Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend (1977), Jonathan Harker in Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979) and Damiel the Angel in Wings of Desire (1987).

Swiss - Actor

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I really do not like violence.

Bruno Ganz

I'm very curious.

Bruno Ganz

Every actor wants to win an Oscar.

Bruno Ganz

I get bored with unintelligent scripts. When I read the first page and I can tell what is going to happen, I know I don't want to make the film. It's two months work and I would get deeply bored. I would even prefer to do something that didn't work at the box-office, so long as it kept my interest alive.

Bruno Ganz

I like to walk. I like to read. I like to watch people.

Bruno Ganz

People really seemed to think of me as a guardian angel. People would bring their children before me for a blessing or something.

Bruno Ganz

An Australian actor wouldn't have the experience to feel how it is to be in Australia as a European.

Bruno Ganz

I'm not someone who could do 'Superweib,' even if you tell me that this director is another Lubitsch. I saw the preview, and I have to say that you'd need a squad of police officers to force me to see the whole thing.

Bruno Ganz

I am not considered to be extroverted - except on the stage.

Bruno Ganz

I was so stupid when I was young. I thought that everyone should share my feelings and my sadness about the state of the world, the stuff you have when you are 16 and are asking if God exists.

Bruno Ganz

I was a leftist for a long time.

Bruno Ganz

When I was still young and living in Switzerland, I had auditioned in Munich for a German film and was rejected. So I gave up and concentrated on my stage work. But I always wanted to make films.

Bruno Ganz

I do not want to repeat myself with my roles.

Bruno Ganz

Kinski was fascinating. To me he was always very nice and he never attacked me. He liked to show his power by sometimes quarrelling with people on production. I adored him as an actor, but not always as a person.

Bruno Ganz

As a boy I was morbidly shy.

Bruno Ganz

People in planes said: 'Ah, no need to be afraid, because with you here, nothing can happen. Now we are safe.' Or a mother said to her child: 'Look, there's your guardian angel.' They weren't joking. That was an amazing feeling. I loved that. Because that means much more than people saying, 'You are a very good actor,' or 'I love your work.'

Bruno Ganz

I tend to identify with my roles to such an extent that I appear to be totally convinced about certain statements that, in real life, I would never believe in.

Bruno Ganz