Dietrich Quotes

On Marlene Dietrich: "Her legs may be longer than mine, but unlike me, she doesn`t have 7 grandchildren."

(on Jean Arthur) A difficult person out in the street, so they say -- I never knew her -- but everyone who went to the movies liked her, and that`s unusual. Every movie star is disliked by some people -- Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich certainly, even Greta Garbo, Ronald Colman -- but everyone liked Jean Arthur.

(on Josef von Sternberg) It was apparent that von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich had a very close professional relationship. But it was only, in my experience, professional, without any love element. I got along with von Sternberg reasonably well, as all his direction and his instructions were given to Marlene, and the rest of us were left more or less to do as well as we could. I can not remember that he ever told me how to play a scene.

Every time she `sins,` she builds a church. That`s why there are so many Catholic churches in Hollywood. - Marlene Dietrich

(on Marlene Dietrich) Mother Teresa with better legs.

(on Marlene Dietrich) Marlene, the most glamorous of all, she was also one of the kindest.

In our film profession you may have (Clark Gable`s) looks, (Spencer Tracy`s) art, (Marlene Dietrich`s) legs or (Elizabeth Taylor`s) violet eyes, but they don`t mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

I can`t do the Garbo or Dietrich thing.