Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Knef
Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knefwas a German actress, singer, and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionStage Actress
Date of Birth28 December 1925
CountryGermany
Hildegard Knef quotes about
idols trying mistaken
Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.
fire actors revolution
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.
guarantees-that life-and-death fear-of-death
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
movie stars film
The so-called film star's lot is an infantile and precarious one ...
memorable giving success-and-failure
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
land musical rehearsal
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.
age prosperity careful
Prosperity's disciples build careful bastions against age and change ...
memories lapses attractive
... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.
believe wind slave
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.
mistake helping bigs
If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.