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

- Hildegard Knef

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

- Hildegard Knef

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

- 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 recog…

- 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

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 room…

- 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

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

- Hildegard Knef