"When I auditioned for Tim Robbins for 'Cradle Will Rock,' the young girl who read with me was very y..." — Barbara Sukowa

I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.

I was very lucky: I started acting in this highly subsidized German theater world, so there was not so much job insecurity. We had great working conditions, long rehearsal times, well paid.

Arendt did have a certain snobbishness, though in some of her writing she expressed more democratic attitudes.

I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.