Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
— Marlene Dietrich
I am not a myth.
— Marlene Dietrich
I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.
— Kirsten Dunst
I never ever took my career seriously.
— Marlene Dietrich
A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman
any woman
with beautiful legs. — Marlene Dietrich
any woman
with beautiful legs. — Marlene Dietrich
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
— Marlene Dietrich
Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.
— Marlene Dietrich
One should be afraid of life, not of death.
— Marlene Dietrich
[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.
— Marlene Dietrich
Grumbling is the death of love.
— Marlene Dietrich
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
— Marlene Dietrich
Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.
— Marlene Dietrich
When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.
— Marlene Dietrich
H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.
— Marlene Dietrich
Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.
— Marlene Dietrich
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich Under a picture of a mom holding a baby
— Marlene Dietrich
I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.
— Marlene Dietrich
You're never lonely with a book.
— Marlene Dietrich
Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.
— Marlene Dietrich
There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
— Marlene Dietrich
On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.
— Marlene Dietrich
As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
— Dita Von Teese
I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
— Charlize Theron
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.
— Marlene Dietrich
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
— Marlene Dietrich
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.
— Marlene Dietrich
On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.
— Marlene Dietrich
Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
— Marlene Dietrich
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.
— Marlene Dietrich
I am, at heart, a gentleman.
— Marlene Dietrich
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
— Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.
— Edith Head
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
— Marlene Dietrich
What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.
— Marlene Dietrich
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
— Marlene Dietrich
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.
— Marlene Dietrich
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
— Marlene Dietrich
Love affairs are the real only education in life.
— Marlene Dietrich
Where have all the flowers gone
— Marlene Dietrich
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.
— Marlene Dietrich
I, personally, liked the legend.
— Marlene Dietrich
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
— Marlene Dietrich
Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.
— Marlene Dietrich
I never enjoyed working in a film.
— Marlene Dietrich
Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.
— Marlene Dietrich
They want you to bring out your intestines.
— Marlene Dietrich
It gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.
— Marlene Dietrich
For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.
— Marlene Dietrich
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.
— Marlene Dietrich
In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive
— Marlene Dietrich
Habit: Often mistaken for love.
— Marlene Dietrich
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
— Marlene Dietrich
People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
— Dionne Warwick
A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.
— Marlene Dietrich
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
— Marlene Dietrich
The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor
is that of accomplices in crime — Marlene Dietrich
is that of accomplices in crime — Marlene Dietrich
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.
— Marlene Dietrich
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
— Marlene Dietrich
I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.
— Marlene Dietrich
The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.
— Marlene Dietrich
Your daughter is your child for life.
— Marlene Dietrich
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.
— Marlene Dietrich
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.
— Marlene Dietrich
Dietrich would never do that
— Marlene Dietrich
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
— Marlene Dietrich
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
— Marlene Dietrich
My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.
— Jerry Hall
Sex is much better with a woman,
but then one can't live with a woman — Marlene Dietrich
but then one can't live with a woman — Marlene Dietrich
Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age,
but you can't fool a flight of stairs — Marlene Dietrich
but you can't fool a flight of stairs — Marlene Dietrich
To lose your prejudices you must travel.
— Marlene Dietrich
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
— Marlene Dietrich
Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
— Marlene Dietrich
[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me.
— Marlene Dietrich
I have been photographed to death
— Marlene Dietrich
Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
— Marlene Dietrich
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.
— Marlene Dietrich
You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.
— Marlene Dietrich
Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
— Edith Head
Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
— Marlene Dietrich
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
— Marlene Dietrich
It is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich
If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
— Marlene Dietrich
What remains is solitude.
— Marlene Dietrich
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
— Marlene Dietrich
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
— Marlene Dietrich