Top 33 Vicky Krieps Quotes

When I got pregnant, I knew I wasn’t anywhere in my career, that I had not arrived. I was still on my adventure, and so I said to the child in my belly, ‘I am so happy for you to come, but you should know I’m still on my way, and you’ll have to come with me and be in my rucksack.’

I didn’t know what acting school was, so I went onto the computer and typed ‘acting school.’ I found one in Berlin, and I found ones in Vienna, Zurich, and London. I went to all of those places to audition. You were supposed to have two monologues, and I only had one.

It was like putting your foot into a pond and knowing that I wanted to dive into this. It wasn’t even just acting. It was this medium, film. I had to explore it.

I stood in front of a mountain and was overwhelmed by the beauty and energy; I had goosebumps. I thought, if I could record this feeling, go back home and pour it out again so other people can have that feeling, this I would want to be my work. I knew it was acting – I wanted to be like a messenger or medium.

I think women are strong, and they have never been weak.

Love cannot be defined, caught, cast in stone, or archived. It’s something we have no control over. Love is completely analog. Love can never be digital.

I am always open to when someone says, ‘Let’s do it this way.’

You want to be a good mother, and you want to be a good actress, and you want to be a good friend, and we expect this of us, to be all of this.

Sexuality isn’t something you create. It is between people, and then it just happens.

I do feel that I myself wouldn’t have had, in my life looking back, the courage to go out and say, ‘I’m a good actress.’ So I think I’m one of those people that needed to be seen by someone else to see myself.

I don’t call myself a method actor, but the thing is, when you meet Reynolds Woodcock, who is always Reynolds Woodcock, you kind of are Alma, and you kind of become Alma all the time. I think after the first day, Vicky was going, ‘Oh gosh.’ It was so intense, and I couldn’t understand why it was so intense.

Whenever you make someone dependent on your money… It’s this capitalist idea that I think has made America into a place where it’s hard to breathe as an individual sometimes.

I meet a person as the person. I try to not give away who they are or who they’re supposed to be.

I’ve been a waitress for events, but a lady at the Victoria hotel in Yorkshire showed me how to do it properly.

I’m always interested in projects. Whatever I do, I’m interested in the color of the material. I’m not interested in who’s making it. I’m more concentrated on the work.

When I act, I act with my skin.

I made a movie in Germany called ‘The Chambermaid’ – it was very, very small. I think it cost €70,000 to make. I even put some money in and raised some money for it. It was real German arthouse… It goes, somehow, out there on the Internet, and it goes on iTunes.

I was definitely in acting class in school, but I was never the princess of the play. I will always remember: they always gave me the part of the gypsy or the old man in the corner.

I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one hour, and suddenly, day after day, piece by piece, I could really feel I was coming back into me.

Every good love story is actually completely insane, completely mad.

The more I’m here in L.A. talking to people, the more I believe that what I’ve been doing is right, and that’s the belief that you have to judge a role from the character, by the script.

Many relationships can become difficult, and it can be hard to find a way back.

I love how complicated we are. We are complicated because of what we’ve had and lived.

It seemed too glamorous to me to be an actress like in the movies.

I’m very proudly European. I love that we have stories to tell of a place where we come from and we can relate to.

Love for your work, love for another person, love for yourself – love is a huge pond, and it’s never empty. You can go and take from it, and it will give you strength.

I grew up wearing trousers and climbing trees.

In my family, people become pregnant at 33 or something, not 26.

I wasn’t a girl who grew up wearing dresses, but I was always attracted to fabric. When we’d go to a shop, the fabric I’d pick was always the most expensive. It was always the silk or cashmere. It was something in me, that desire to choose quality. It’s the same now.

For me, couture is like 35 mm. film. It’s so important we school ourselves to see real quality. In a couture garment, as in a 35 mm. film, you really feel the life of the people who made it. In high-street fashion, it’s different. There’s no risk.

You can give into a relationship and warmth and the arms of another person.

I have such strong beliefs. No money or anything could change that.

In German, if a situation is tense, you say ‘unter strom’ – under electricity.