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.
MARLENE DIETRICHThe average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
More Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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I am not a myth.
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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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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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Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.
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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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Darling, the legs aren’t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
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I never enjoyed working in a film.
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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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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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Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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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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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
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