Marlene Dietrich quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Marlene Dietrich

Marlene Dietrich Famous Quotes & Sayings

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Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

I am not a myth.

I never ever took my career seriously.

A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman
any woman
with beautiful legs.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

One should be afraid of life, not of death.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

Grumbling is the death of love.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich Under a picture of a mom holding a baby

I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.

You're never lonely with a book.

Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.

I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.

A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

I am, at heart, a gentleman.

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

They want you to bring out your intestines.

Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive

America took me into her bosom when there was no longer a country worthy of the name, but in my heart I am German - German in my soul.

It gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

I, personally, liked the legend.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

Where have all the flowers gone

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor
is that of accomplices in crime

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

Your daughter is your child for life.

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.

Dietrich would never do that

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

Sex is much better with a woman,
but then one can't live with a woman

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age,
but you can't fool a flight of stairs

To lose your prejudices you must travel.

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

I have been photographed to death

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.

It is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone wiser than oneself.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

What remains is solitude.

Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.