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 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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The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
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A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties.
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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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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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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 am not a myth.
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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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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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If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
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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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Grumbling is the death of love.
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There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
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In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it’s a fact.
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Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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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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