Hildegard Knef Quotes

• 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

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

  Hildegard Knef

  Women, Memorable, Giving

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• 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

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• ... 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”

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• 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

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

  Hildegard Knef

  Age, Prosperity, Careful

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• 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

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• 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”

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

  Hildegard Knef

  Movie, Stars, Film

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