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" 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. "

Barbara Sukowa

Time

Generation

" In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives. "

" My English is good because I have a good ear. "

" 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 love work where I can find out more about the world and its history. "

" 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. "

" You can only be a monster if people let you be a monster. "

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

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

" 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 am what I am. I'm not going to get plastic surgery. I had this discussion with my younger son. We were at a dermatologist, and this dermatologist suggested to me that I wanted to avoid wrinkles. Those wrinkles show that I have laughed a lot in my life, why should I want to erase that? Why would I erase the traces of my life which I loved? "

Barbara Sukowa

My Life

Loved

" We really love to learn and explore things. "

" I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi. "

" I think it's important for politicians to have moral qualities. "

" I never really caught on in America. I don't have an agent. It's too strange for me. "

Barbara Sukowa

Too

Caught

" I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany. "

Barbara Sukowa

View

People

" I'm a real optimist. "

Barbara Sukowa

Real

Optimist

" 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. "

Barbara Sukowa

Star

Think

" 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. "

" We live in a world where we don't really hear ideas. We just hear propaganda. That's not just boring. It's also very dangerous. "

" 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. "

" 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 always feel like I'm an actress. "

Barbara Sukowa

Always

Feel

" 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. "