Nastassja Kinski Quotes

Quotes to Explore

• Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Free
  • Me
  • Always

• I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Training
  • Boxing
  • Ready

• The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Good
  • Book

• I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Me
  • City
  • Write

• I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Career
  • Interesting

• I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Funny
  • Deserve
  • Award

• The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Heart
  • Training
  • Close

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • World
  • Real
  • Reading

• I started writing plays in around 1967, and at a certain point, I thought, 'I'm writing plays, I should learn about acting and what it is.' So I went to the HB Studio in New York, and I was there for about nine months.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Writing
  • Thought
  • New York

• One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Men
  • Failure
  • Problems

• If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.

  

  Barry Diller
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Hate
  • Like
  • Afraid

• I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Love
  • Waiting
  • Would

• When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Family
  • Age
  • Small

• I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Wish
  • Kind
  • Simple

• Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Future
  • Religion
  • Philosophy

• This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • May
  • Like
  • Beauty

• I would come to understand there is no poem separable from its source. I began to see that poems are not just an individual florescence. They are also a vast root system growing down into ideas and understandings. Almost unbidden, they tap into the history and evolution of art and language.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Art
  • History
  • Growing

• It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens. There are other things I enjoy doing, and I involve myself in them.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • World
  • Job
  • Movie

• In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Society
  • Know
  • Short

• Read as widely as possible, and write every day, even if it's as little as three sentences.

  

  William Shunn
  • Possible
  • Sentences

• 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.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Years
  • End
  • Fast