Werner Klemperer's Quotes

When you mean a show like this, you have to say to me a show exactly like this, the way it was done.

But when they offered this little situation for me to do this voice in this special segment, I found it so incredibly humorous that I said yes, and I enjoyed it. It was fun.

I think that's so strange, because they do know that we're all actors and we perform things that have not necessarily anything to do with us personally.

I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.

The fact that I have such a problem that people... that that has to, you know, be on people's mind, what my personal background is. To me, to be very frank with you, is a totally irrelevant thing.

You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.

I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.