Wladimir Klitschko Quotes

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations.

When I was young, I always wanted to go to Russia.

I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.

I think it's part of my personality - I love to travel; I love different cultures and philosophies and perspectives on things.

The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a place that you like or discovering something unusual is a very sustaining thing in travel.

I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.

Kids need stuff which is different than what their life is that they can kind of live through.

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that's still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, 'Here's what I've discovered about myself and about the world I'm in. I would like to share this with you.'

So I left with Jean Claude and went to Paris, so when the Russians came to Prague, I was in Paris.

Humanity hungers for the uncommon.

I love people! I am a people person. I am a very curious human being. I am very interested in what people have to say. I love cultures, too, so I am always traveling.

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.

It was one of my dreams as a child, growing up in my little village with my cousins. We used to walk together, and I used to say, when you look at the world map, 'This town is there, that town is there, that river is there.' I used to say, 'One day, I'm going to travel these places.'

I write about all manner of things: a guy fighting aliens in the New York State Library, Antarctica, Inca civilization in Peru, the Great Pyramid at Giza, and people often ask me, where do I get these ideas from? They come from reading widely, watching a lot of documentaries, and increasingly, as I was able to, travelling around the world.

I grew up in East Germany, so we had to learn Russian in school... everybody hated it. I never thought it would come in handy... And being an actor, I've been able to use it quite a bit.

Americans are the pick of the more adventurous and people of all races.

We were behind the iron curtain at last.

… the unfortunate but inevitable connection between the word “socialism” and the unmitigated crucifixion of Civil Liberties in the East [Eastern Europe dominated by the Russian Communist Party.

I've been so lucky to be able to go into such different worlds from my own, and that's what makes my job so fun. I just want to continue doing that.

After Stalin died, the Soviet Union began inching toward the world again. The ban on jazz was lifted. Ernest Hemingway was published; the Pushkin Museum in Moscow hosted an exhibit of the works of Picasso.

Today on the NATO line, our military forces face east to prevent a possible invasion. On the other side of the line, the Soviet forces also face east to prevent their people from leaving.

As a 7-year-old child, I saw the Wall being erected. No one - although it was a stark violation of international law - believed at the time that one ought to intervene militarily in order to protect citizens of the GDR and whole Eastern bloc, of the consequences of that - namely, to live in lack of freedom for many, many years.

I think it's important to stay curious and see and experience as much as you can, whether it's art, performance, music, travel, or just hanging out and people-watching.

Very early, it became clear to me that East Germany could not function.