- "Cracks - A Mysterious Love" is very personal to me, because in a fantasy story you can write about the people who really matter.
- What I really don't understand is why actors are used for the promotion on porn pages in the World Wide Web and hereby, want to point out that I neither support these pages nor support the fact, that they use copyrighted material for it. It was shocking for me to discover my personal role model actors on pornographic websites and thereby seeing their work in a totally distorted context. I seriously ask myself, if everyone can make money with everyone and if everyone can use everything in every context in the World Wide Web?
- New York inspired me to write this story and a lot of very great people, I thankfully got to know.
- I love writing because I can talk about the people who are important to me.
- Though a lot of people from the German press have a problem with my dad being a press photographer and me being an actress, I don't see it as a problem at all - photographers are artist's as well, and I happen to know many of them.
- The brother-in-law of my grandmother told me the story, that during WW2 a Russian man stole an apple from his property, which a neighbor observed and if he had not denied it, the Nazi's would have killed that man. For saving the man's life the Russians brought him fresh butter as a gift later on. He still does not understand that - a apple for a life -, was the reality back then and he still tells the story to everyone, not for his heroic motion saving a man's life, but rather that an apple could have cost you your life.
- Viola Davis is one of my most favorite actresses. I first saw her on "Get Rich or Die Tryin'", since then I thought wow this is an amazing beautiful woman. She totally captured me.
- I really try to keep my private life private, otherwise the word private would not make sense anymore and you guys have to understand, I also have contact with private people who don't show off at social media, so you see, I also have to protect them.
- My other great grandfather came home during the WWI, torn and distraught by the killings of the war - especially for what they forced him to do. He went to the church to confess his sins, and asked the priest what he could do against the war, however the priest told him quote - "I absolve you from your sins, though son go back to war and kill for your homeland" - ...this is what happens, when there is war.
- Being real as an actor sometimes isn't that easy because sometimes people are behaving so unreal, lie, betray, so often just being true is not enough for being a good actor, definitely playing a character does mean more, however a good screenplay makes it easier to fill in all the attributes and blanks a human being has.
- Acting really is crazy and frightening, on the other hand opens doors to other lives and minds, showing me that somehow everyone has a reason to be like they are, which is beyond the fun of acting, very interesting.
- People want to know all kinds of things about me, so I must be some "thing" to them.
- From a young age on I have been often at the movie sets and immediately I loved it, watching the actors and the whole team working together felt to me like being at home.
- I hope this is an open world, and I hope that nobody gets judged for what they are, I don't do that and I hope no one judges me for being a woman and an actress - I think it's equally old-fashioned to say a woman belongs at home as to say a woman, just because she is an actress, can be used for advertising on porn pages.
- I never could understand why my great-grandfather August Gattinger, insisted on us to be on time, when we were meeting with him. He was so crazy about it, that at one time my family and I, we actually were late, and I think it was just five minutes, however, he had already left the restaurant we were supposed to meet. For sure, my mom was devastated and understood him, though for me it was a big mystery. Later on then, unfortunately after he had died I got to know the man he really was, because before even if my mom had tried, I wouldn't have understood it - I was just a little kid, you see. Nevertheless I found out that he was first, a prisoner of war by the Germans, for helping his brother escaping to America. He was hold for 5 years in the KZ in Dachau and after that he was captivated by the Russian's for another 5 years. So his time issues made in just a second sense to me. He also committed himself in taking care of the reparations of the WWII victims. His son, my grandfather, sadly died before him and I unfortunately never got to know him, but people who have known him tell me that he was a very charismatic man and he also was an upcoming soccer player for TSV 1860. My great-grandfather proudly showed all the press articles to nearly everyone, although never got a really close relationship with him due to the war and the imprisonment, that stole him his son, and his son had to grow up without his father. For me it's sad to know that my ancestors had so many struggles to fight and thereby so less choice, what explains a certain strange coldness, however I still remember that there were moments when I could break this wall and was able to make my great-grandfather smile, and I have to say as a funny kid as I was I always was up to something, so we had quite a few moments, despite of all that suffering he had to endure in the most precious period time of his life. Thanks to my dad who has videotaped a lot I can now see that I could do something for him. Not everyone has this strength to go on living like that, but he definitely was that strong, what taught me a lot, later.
- In New York I had the first ideas for my novel.
- The great thing about acting is that you can almost be everything like so many have proven. For sure you have to pull it out of yourself and then you can see what happens with you, when you're putting yourself in that kind of position, which means your character, because if you go there as an actor you will get to know that we're all have so many different varieties - often we just choose to behave and act in a certain way, but we are all able to be different and as an actor I have the chance to get to know me differently, but still as myself - because it's always for me from inside out, which will make me tell the story in a new way, based on my very personal experiences.
- ...and this is so great about self-publishing, you don't have to fit in, better, you can really tell your own unique story, which intrigued me totally, because I think the great thing about acting, as well as writing and any other art form is to surprise with unpredictability, which is the only thing to make a story exciting, thriving and thereby keeping a little rawness.
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