Hildegard Knef Quotes

Today, idols are not made of wood, stone, or brass. They are made of money, sex, and power.

Money buys everything except love, personality, freedom, immortality, silence, peace.

How many more idols must you find before you realize that you are the one you have been searching for?

You start admiring someone who's famous for actually doing something---imagine that---and I swear to you I will buy you every item in her entire wardrobe. But over my own dead body will I spend my own time and money turning you into a clone of some brain-dead waste of skin who thinks the pinnacle of achievement is selling her wedding shots to a magazine.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long, have done my credit in this World much wrong; have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup, and sold my Reputation for a Song.

No graven images may be Worshipped, except the currency.

He who trades his identity for money will one day wind up with neither.

I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody.

There's more to life than being an actor in a Hollywood movie. I'm not going to adapt my life after that existence, where a lot of people do. And they get the publicist, and they get all that stuff, and it becomes them. I think it's a stupid way to live your life. A really dumb way to live your life.

My whole life is not defined by what Hollywood does.

I'm not interested in someone's credits. Let me see who you are, and tell me a story of your life.

I could've kept playing, but football didn't define me.

My mates and my family know who I am and that's all I really care about. Making my parents proud and happy.

The man molds the idol and then the idol molds the man.

Monarchy can easily be "debunked," but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.

I used to have a fake Louis Vuitton bag because I thought it meant something in life. But now I realize that all the things in the world don't define you. It's what you stand for, what you're willing to do, how close to the truth you're willing to be in your life.

In life one must decide whether to conjugate the verb to have or the verb to be.

That girls should not marry for money we are all agreed. A lady who can sell herself for a title or an estate, for an income or aset of family diamonds, treats herself as a farmer treats his sheep and oxen--makes hardly more of herself, of her own inner self, in which are comprised a mind and soul, than the poor wretch of her own sex who earns her bread in the lowest state of degradation.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That's why it's so important to know who you are and stand up for something.

I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

I don't really look at celebrities as role models - I just don't see them like that. I guess it's because I'm in that world so I know that no one is perfect.

Your name or your body, what is dearer? Your body or your wealth, what is worthier?