Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
MARLENE DIETRICHIt’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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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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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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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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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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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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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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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 am not a myth.
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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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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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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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