20 Quotes by Bruno Ganz

As a boy I was morbidly shy.

I really do not like violence.

An Australian actor wouldn't have the experience to feel how it is to be in Australia as a European.

I'm very curious.

When I was still young and living in Switzerland, I had auditioned in Munich for a German film and was rejected. So I gave up and concentrated on my stage work. But I always wanted to make films.

Kinski was fascinating. To me he was always very nice and he never attacked me. He liked to show his power by sometimes quarrelling with people on production. I adored him as an actor, but not always as a person.

I was a leftist for a long time.

I was so stupid when I was young. I thought that everyone should share my feelings and my sadness about the state of the world, the stuff you have when you are 16 and are asking if God exists.

I am not considered to be extroverted - except on the stage.