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.
MARLENE DIETRICHTo be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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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You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it’s no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
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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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When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
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Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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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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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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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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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 dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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