Nastassja Kinski Quotes (45 Quotes)


    Some people dance through life, not having a steady job or a steady marriage, and this and that.

    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 wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

    Not that I want everything right now; but I do want everything.




    I do wear lipstick because when I suddenly get pale or green, it seems whole blood goes away.

    I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.

    I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

    I live for my family and for us to be together and to stay together, even if there are obstacles and the road is rocky.

    What I do requires an openness, and the more open you are, the easier it is to get hurt.


    You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.


    It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.


    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.

    It was never my intention to remain an actress all the time, so maybe I'll stop acting pretty soon.

    I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.


    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.

    It's so great to love somebody and, out of that, to make a child. So that's my goal.

    For me, directors were like father figures most of the time.

    It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.


    I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

    Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

    To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.



    It should be only a part of my life, but it isn't. I have only one thing: my work.


    I tell my kids that something can start with a dream and that, more often than not, you can really go for something if you believe in it.

    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.

    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?

    I often feel with God and humans and angels that it's up to us to make something or to break it, to do things or not do them.

    And I've become more honest, more intense in my life without pushing it.

    I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

    When a woman receives flowers from a man, it fills up your heart. It's, like, love's coming your way.

    I've been taking lessons for a year or so and every time I hear a piano playing, it goes through and through me, so I'm going to buy a little piano.

    Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

    Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

    But because of these different experiences, and often because of their pain, older people's lives are very fascinating to me.

    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.


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