Marlene Dietrich
There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.Collection: Money
I never enjoyed working in a film.Collection: Movies
When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.Collection: Death
Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.Collection: Women
To be completely 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.Collection: Respect
It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.Collection: Friendship
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.Collection: Relationship
I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.Collection: Men
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.Collection: Courage
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
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.
Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
I am at heart a gentleman.
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
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.
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
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.
The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
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.
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
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.
Grumbling is the death of love.
I am not a myth.
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.
They want you to bring out your intestines.
You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.Collection: Fighting
Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.Collection: Being Thankful
Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.Collection: Years
To lose your prejudices you must travel.Collection: Travel
Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.Collection: Sadness
In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.Collection: Men
I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.Collection: Happiness
Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.Collection: Sunday
What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.Collection: Men
Love affairs are the real only education in life.Collection: Best Love
Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.Collection: Love
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?Collection: Travel
Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.Collection: Knowing
Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.Collection: Heart
I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.Collection: Personality
A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.Collection: Country