Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
MARLENE DIETRICHThere’s something about an American soldier you can’t explain. They’re so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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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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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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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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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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The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
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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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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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It’s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
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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 dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
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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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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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