Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German actress Nastassja Kinski.
Last updated on November 25, 2024.
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with Stay as You Are (1978). She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winning performance as the title character in the Roman Polanski-directed film Tess (1979). Other notable films in which she acted include the erotic horror film Cat People (1982), the Wim Wenders dramas Paris, Texas (1984) and Faraway, So Close! (1993), and the biographical drama film An American Rhapsody (2001). Kinski is fluent in four languages: German, English, French and Italian. She is the daughter of German actor Klaus Kinski.
And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.
I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.
Actors, after all, dream.
I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, 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.
I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
I want to do movies but not talk about them.
It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.
It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
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.
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?
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 wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
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.
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
I love men who make me laugh.
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.
Water for me is so essential, like swimming.
It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Having children is what a woman is born for, really.
It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.
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.
Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.
Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
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 dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.
When I cannot get that moment of truth where you feel yourself opening up like a flower, I absolutely loathe the bloody camera. I can just feel this black hole eyeing me, sucking me in, and I feel like smashing it to smithereens.
I had a great childhood. I had such fun.
I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.
I'm pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken
I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes