Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
MARLENE DIETRICHI 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.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
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Grumbling is the death of love.
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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.
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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.
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A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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