Hildegard Knef famous quotes

04-17-2025

If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
-- Hildegard Knef

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Helping
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
-- Hildegard Knef

#Memorable #Giving #Success And Failure
Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change ...
-- Hildegard Knef

#Age #Prosperity #Careful
... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.
-- Hildegard Knef

#Memories #Lapses #Attractive
If one sits down and concentrates on imagining the worst possible surroundings for rehearsing a musical show, it's never as bad as the rehearsal rooms one actually lands in.
-- Hildegard Knef

#Land #Musical #Rehearsal
I believe that the only possible reason for our being here is to serve in some form or another but that the form is not always readily found or recognized. And I've noticed that those who refuse to serve often wind up as slaves.
-- Hildegard Knef

#Believe #Wind #Slave
The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one ...
-- Hildegard Knef

#Movie #Stars #Film
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
-- Hildegard Knef

#Life And Death #Guarantees #Fear Of Death
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.
-- Hildegard Knef

#Fire #Actors #Revolution
Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.
-- Hildegard Knef

#Idols #Trying #Mistaken

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