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.
MARLENE DIETRICHA man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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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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I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life.
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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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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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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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Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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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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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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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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I am at heart a gentleman.
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