Marlene Dietrich famous quotes

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

#Fashion #Men #Dresses

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

#Passionate #Vow #Proof

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

#Marriage #Forgiveness #Women

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

#Sunday #Better Days #Champagne

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

#Opera #Stores #Hardware

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

#Friendship #Best Friend #Cute Relationship

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

#Disappointment #Real #Hands

Grumbling is the death of love
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Grumbling

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

#Love #Heart #Offering

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

#Fashion #Dark #Remember

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

#Beauty #Beautiful #Legs

I am at heart a gentleman.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Heart #Gentleman

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Men #Tenderness

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

#Waiting #Planets #Ufo

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

#Beautiful #Women #Average

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

#Women #Home #Unmade Beds

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

#Funny #Change #Hilarious

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

#Crazy #Religion #Atheism

Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Knowing #Way #Kind

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Differences #Earning #Wealth

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

#Sex #Women #Memorable

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Inspirational #Leadership #Book

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Strong #Weakness #Weak

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

#Laughter #Laughing #Remember

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

#Travel #Home #Confusing

Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Home #Gay #Victory

To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Love #Men #Long

I never enjoyed working in a film.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Movie #Gambling #Film

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

#Travel #Women #Latin

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Death

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Actors #Diplomats #Lovers

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

#Style #Glamour #Trade

Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Husband #Kissing #Thinking

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

#Sex

I never ever took my career seriously.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Careers

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Stars #Winning #Awards

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Fathers Day #Kings #Dad

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

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Heart #Blue #Broken

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

#Children #Drinking #Sea

Habit: Often mistaken for love.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Habit #Mistaken

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

#Fighting #Illusion

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Real #Men #Gentle

one should be afraid of life, not of death.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Life And Death #Life Death #Afraid Of Life

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

#Sadness #Important #Depth

...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Sunday #Giving #Champagne

Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Country #Talking #Style

Where have all the flowers gone
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Flower #Gone

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently and nothing can be done, and no move made, until "a nice cup of tea" is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not so tea-conscious. World-peace conferences would run more smoothly if "a nice cup of tea", or indeed, a samovar were available at the proper time.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Running #Country #Nice

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

#Las Vegas #Locks #Towns

To lose your prejudices you must travel.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Travel #Prejudice

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

#Mother #Daughter #Boys

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

#Daughter #Mother #Want

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

#Beauty #Beautiful #Lovers

Love affairs are the real only education in life.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Best Love #Real #Affair

What remains is solitude.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Solitude #Remains

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

#Tears #Faces #Germany

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

#Happiness #Thinking #Thanks

How do you know love is gone? If you said that you would be there at seven and you get there by nine, and he or she has not called the police yet - it's gone.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#I Love You #Broken Heart #Love Is

Your daughter is your child for life.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Daughter #Mother #Children

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Inspirational #Friendship #Thinking

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

#Alive #Gone #Cry

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

#Years #Age #May

Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Fall #Twilight #Doctors

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

#Girl #Morning #Night

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

#Grateful #Soldier #Actresses

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Language #Speak

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

#Children #People #Made

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

#Country #Heart #Names

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

#Memorable #Thinking #Potatoes

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Beautiful #Play #Eyelashes

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

#Sky #Air #People

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

#Thinking #Judging #Cooking

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

#Mother #Food #Mind

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

#Spiritual #Keys #Enlightenment

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

#Grace #Mixtures #Formidable

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

#Men #Actors #Film

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

#Men #Europe #Making Love

I have been photographed to death
-- Marlene Dietrich

Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Fall #Kids #Artist

Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Work #Workaholic #Forget

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

#Responsibility #Duty #Lacking

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Atheism #Superstitions #Belief

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Country #House #Bathroom

Morocco: Looks better in films.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Morocco #Looks #Film

I, personally, liked the legend.
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Legends #Fame

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

#Plant #Charm #Feels

Dietrich would never do that
-- Marlene Dietrich

#Inspirational