Hildegard Knef Quotes
If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
... lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.
Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.
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.
