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 DIETRICHThere’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 DIETRICHI am at heart a gentleman.
MARLENE DIETRICHI’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
MARLENE DIETRICHI am not a myth.
MARLENE DIETRICHIf there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
MARLENE DIETRICHIn America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICHGlamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
MARLENE DIETRICHA 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 DIETRICHSex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
MARLENE DIETRICHLatins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
MARLENE DIETRICHA father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
MARLENE DIETRICHThink twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
MARLENE DIETRICHOnce a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
MARLENE DIETRICHWithout tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
MARLENE DIETRICHAmerica 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 DIETRICHSuperstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
MARLENE DIETRICH