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" I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that. "

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" I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer. "

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" 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. "

" There was a time for German stars in the 1950s with Curt Jurgens, Hardy Kruger, O. W. Fischer, and Maria Schell. That was a totally different generation. It all ended in 1968 during the big students' movement in my country. It was an anti-authority movement that changed everything. All my country's hierarchies, morals and values were questioned. "

" I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times. "

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" 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. "