Berlin Quotes

No matter what happens to me and my career in the future, Berlin is always going to be my hometown.

I liked Germany; I'm not into Berlin, it's too huge and empty and imposing, but Munich was good.

Irving Berlin has no place in American music -- he is American music.

Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an inalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.

God bless America, land that I love.

Talent is only the starting point.

I am absolutely convinced that the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers.

I love deep cleavage on the foot. It reminds me of Berlin in 1930s, 'Cabaret.'

Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated.

The Berlin Wall go down, that was the most wonderful thing that could happen, absolutely. I celebrated with everybody in Berlin that day when the Wall was down.

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

I know very well that Berlin attaches great importance to NATO and solidarity, in terms of sharing the burden. For this reason, I feel confident that the German government will take the right decision, one that serves both German and NATO interests.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

It is a commentary on Berlin in 1931 that ... it was 'My Yiddishe Momme' that the Berlin Broadcasting Company asked for.

There's no business like show business.

The Berlin Wall is the defining achievement of socialism.

Vietnam, really more accurately, Laos, was almost after Berlin the top problem at the beginning of the Kennedy Administration in '61, foreign problem.

First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin

People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.

No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.

I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

Not only should we laugh about Hitler. We must laugh about him. Especially in Berlin.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.

With the Berlin I was able to set up a fortress that he could come near but not breach.

And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

Berlin is my favourite city.

Irresponsibility, cowardice, personal vanity, whining and chaos are becoming the maxims of political action. There is a stink in Berlin - a huge one!

I wouldn't want to live in Berlin. It's bombed out and there's a lot of techno.

Whoever lives in Berlin note, and doesn't die of Liberalism, will never die of vexation!

I had only that one picture, Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, in which I had a part big enough to impress anyone. I tried for better roles over and over again

I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise.

Even in November 1938, after five years of anti-Semitic legislation and persecution, they still owned, according to the Times correspondent in Berlin, something like a third of the real property in the Reich.

When you come to Germany as a Jew you have an uneasy feeling, but I've always felt okay in Berlin.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

There are several really interesting clocks in Berlin.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

I remember when the Berlin Wall fell and suddenly intractable problems get solved.

Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of what should be.

Berlin is like being abroad in Germany. It's German, but not provincial.

My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

[Isaiah] Berlin's observation is accurate enough, and applies at home as well, and even more harshly for the reasons already mentioned: the apparatchiks and commissars could at least plead fear in extenuation.

I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

Berlin stimulates like arsenic.