I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
MARLENE DIETRICHThe Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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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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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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Grumbling is the death of love.
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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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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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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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I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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