If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
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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Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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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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Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
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The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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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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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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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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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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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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