Barbara Sukowa

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

We really love to learn and explore things. ”

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. ”

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? ”

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

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. ”

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 always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else. ”

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. ”