Quotes from Hildegard Knef

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Amerika is wie Föhn, je länger man da ist, um so schlimmer wird's.

I tasted, sensed, wanted beauty.