Marlene Dietrich Quotes

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.

Darling, the legs aren`t so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

I am at heart a gentleman.

I have a child and I have made a few people happy. That is all.

In America sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it is a fact.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

I am at heart, a gentleman

(On Anna Magnani) A force of nature.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

(On Loretta Young) Every time she "sins", she builds a church. That`s why there are so many Catholic churches in Hollywood.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

I am not a myth.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

Gary Cooper was neither intelligent nor cultured. Just like the other actors, he was chosen for his physique, which, after all, was more important than an active brain.

To be completely a woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. 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.

When you`re dead, you`re dead. That`s it" "If there is a supreme being, he`s crazy." "In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it`s a fact." "Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast." "The diaphragm is the greatest invention since Pan-Cake makeup

The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.

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.

I never ever took my career seriously.

The legs aren`t so beautiful. I just know what to do with them.

The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.

(on Cary Grant) The champion.

Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can`t live with a woman!

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil, they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

(on Hildegard Knef) She`s Mother Courage.

In Europe, it doesn`t matter if you`re a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

I was an actress. I made films. Finish.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman`s age, but you can`t fool a flight of stairs.

On Blaue Engel, Der (1930), I thought everything we were doing was awful. They kept a camera pointed here (groin). I was so young and dumb.

(1972 comment on Liza Minnelli) I`m annoyed when people keep comparing her to her mother (Judy Garland). She`s nothing to do with her mother. She`s a completely different woman. The film "Cabaret" is a great hit for her and that`s all one wants.

There is a lack of dignity to film stardom.

It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter.

(on Orson Welles) You should cross yourself when you say his name.

In 1964: "I had no desire to be a film actress, to always play somebody else, to be beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me."

I`m not an actress -- I`m a personality.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.

Glamour is what I sell, it`s my stock in trade.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

It`s the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

When you`re dead, you`re dead. That`s it.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.