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.
MARLENE DIETRICHLatins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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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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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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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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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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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 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 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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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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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 not a myth.
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