The Best Christa-Maria Sieland Quotes

Georg: You are a great artist. I know that, and your audience knows it, too. You don't need him. You don't need him. Stay here. Don't go to him.
Christa: No? I don't need him? Don't I need this whole system? What about you? Then you don't need it either, or need it even less. But you get in bed with them, too. Why do you do it? Because they can destroy you too, despite your talent and your faith. Because they decide what we play, who is to act, and who can direct.

Hauptmann: Madam?
Christa: Go away. I want to be alone.
Hauptmann: Madam Sieland?
Christa: Do we know each other?
Hauptmann: You don't know me, but I know you. Many people love you for who you are.
Christa: Actors are never "who they are."
Hauptmann: You are. I've seen you on stage. You were more who you are than you are now.
Christa: So you know what I'm like.
Hauptmann: I'm your audience.
Christa: I have to go.
Hauptmann: Where to?
Christa: I'm meeting an old classmate. I...
Hauptmann: You see? Just now, you weren't being yourself.
Christa: No?
Hauptmann: No.
Christa: So you know her well, this Christa-Maria Sieland. What do you think - would she hurt someone who loves her above all else? Would she sell herself for art?
Hauptmann: For art? You already have art. That'd be a bad deal. You are a great artist. Don't you know that?
Christa: And you are a good man.