Nastassja Kinski Quotes

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

Having children is what a woman is born for, really.

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

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

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

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

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 want to do movies but not talk about them.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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’m pretty much a vegetarian, but I do eat fish and sometimes chicken

I had a great childhood. I had such fun.

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

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