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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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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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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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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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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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.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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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.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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