Nastassja Kinski quotes:

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

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.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

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?

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.

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

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

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

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

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

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

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

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

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

Actors, after all, dream.

I want to do movies but not talk about them.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

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

I had a great childhood. I had such fun.

I love men who make me laugh.

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes

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.

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

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

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

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.