What makes an excellent palate cleanser for the horror that is Christmas in America? Some quotes by Klaus Kinski of course. Talk about getting the face you deserve. The title of this post comes froma short film that I saw a few years ago at the Maryland Film Festival. The next time you are bitching about a co-worker, employee or boss, just imagine what your work day would be like if it involved Klaus Kinski. See the short film here.
People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other's murder.
- Werner Herzog on Kinski
Herzog is a miserable, hateful, malevolent, avaricious, money-hungry, nasty, sadistic, treacherous, cowardly creep...he should be thrown alive to the crocodiles! An anaconda should strangle him slowly! A poisonous spider should sting him and paralyze his lungs! The most venomous serpent should bite him and make his brain explode! No panther claws should rip open his throat--that would be much too good for him! Huge red ants should piss into his lying eyes and gobble up his balls and his guts! He should catch the plague! Syphilis! Yellow fever! Leprosy! It's no use; the more I wish him the most gruesome deaths, the more he haunts me.
- Kinski on Herzog
And some more wisdom from Mr. Kinski
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
I didn't choose solitude.
I don't need anybody to tell me how to be alive.
I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would catch the plague, more than ever.
I knew there were, in myself, the souls of millions of people who lived centuries ago; not just people but animals, plants, the elements, things, even, matter. All of these exist in me.
One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.
People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.
Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake.
Klaus Kinski
The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.
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