17 Quotes by Hildegard Knef

I tasted, sensed, wanted beauty.

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

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

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

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

Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?

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

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.

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