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I don't care about that scum! Why should I receive a prize? I know that I'm a genius!

— Klaus Kinski

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Westerns. One after another. They get shittier and shittier, and the so-called directors get lousier and lousier. And the more incompetent they are, the more hostile they act.

Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)

The flamenco of the Gypsy has nothing to do with the flamenco for tourists. Real flamenco is like sex.

Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)

The street kid in me says, "Grab the money and run - who cares who it's from! Don't think about whatever you have to do for it or when you have to do it!"

Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)

The shooting is one long battle against the aggressive obstinacy of the "directress" bitch and her clod of a cameraman - and the two of them stick solidly together in their obduracy.

Kinski Uncut : The Autobiography of Klaus Kinski (1996)

Because of him, I never knew anything other than passion. When I began to meet other people I saw that it wasn’t normal.

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