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Hildegard Knef Quotes

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

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

Hildegard Knef
Mistake, Helping, Bigs

Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.

Hildegard Knef
Women, Memorable, Giving

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

... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.

Hildegard Knef
Memories, Lapses, Attractive
Hildegard Knef (1972). “The Gift Horse: Report on a Life”

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
Guarantees That, Life And Death, Fear Of Death

Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.

Hildegard Knef
Idols, Trying, Mistaken

Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change.

Hildegard Knef
Age, Prosperity, Careful

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
HILDEGARD KNEF (1971). “THE GIFT HORSE”

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

The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one.

Hildegard Knef
Movie, Stars, Film

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