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.

There's no business like show business.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

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.

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

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

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

As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny.

In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.

Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters are from Harlem, the translators put all this Berlin slang into their mouths, and that's just terrible. You cringe when you read that. But there really is no good solution to the problem, except learning English.

Isherwood did not so much find himself in Berlin as reinvent himself; Isherwood became a fiction, a work of art.

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.