Words matter. These are the best Barbara Sukowa Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I don’t think there is such a thing as a German movie star. There are respected actors, but we are not publicized like TV people.
Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.
In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
We really love to learn and explore things.
For ‘Rosa Luxemburg,’ I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I’d never had before.
I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.
I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster.
I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
I started to read labels around age 18 or 19. I don’t buy things that don’t sound like food, and I’ve been that way all my life. I do go through phases, during which I eat meat for maybe three months then don’t. I do eat lots of vegetables. It’s the same with dairy – I’ll eat it then stop.
I had to read Plato and Kant, and at times I was overwhelmed. But I have always been fearless, and so was Hannah Arendt. She wasn’t afraid to speak out when she knew her opinions would not be popular because she believed in the public discourse above all.
To make a movie about someone who is thinking and writing is scary. There’s no big love story, no action, no drama. It’s not an easy task.
I always feel like I’m an actress.
I’ve performed Schoenberg’s ‘Pierrot lunaire’ many times.
I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I’m a singer.
They wanted me to do movies and television when I was very young, and it was a big temptation, but I really thought the only way I could learn the profession was on the stage.
My English is good because I have a good ear.
I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I’ve never done anything else.
I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge – your life, in a way.
In France and other European countries, film stars are more celebrated. In Germany, if we are good at what we do, we are respected but not acclaimed. And, of course, we are not paid like Americans are.
Women who are stronger than the society allows them to be often feel a need for something stronger than themselves, and to dissolve into it.
