Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Hildegard Knef

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German actress Hildegard Knef.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef was a German actress, voice actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English-language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff.

German - Actress | December 28, 1925 - February 1, 2002

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

Hildegard Knef

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

Hildegard Knef

My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.

Hildegard Knef

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

Hildegard Knef

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

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

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

Hildegard Knef

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

Hildegard Knef

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

Hildegard Knef

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