Marlene Dietrich
Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman.Collection: Sex
Dietrich would never do thatCollection: Inspirational
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.Collection: Girl
On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.Collection: Daughter
I never ever took my career seriously.Collection: Careers
Your daughter is your child for life.Collection: Daughter
Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.Collection: Thinking
I have been photographed to death.Collection: Has Beens
I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.Collection: Women
Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.Collection: Actors
The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.Collection: Air
Where have all the flowers goneCollection: Nature
On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.Collection: Daughter
Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.Collection: Children
...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.Collection: Sunday
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.Collection: Responsibility
Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.Collection: Fall
Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.Collection: Fashion
There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.Collection: Laughter
The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.Collection: Running
When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.Collection: Paid
Every human being is in need of talking to somebody. In this country nobody has time. It seems that talking to a friend has gone out of style. Now you have to pay money to go to an analyst.Collection: Country
Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.Collection: Mother
Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.Collection: Disappointment
one should be afraid of life, not of death.Collection: Life And Death
H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.Collection: Opera
For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.Collection: Men
He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.Collection: Real
Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physicallyCollection: Fall
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.Collection: Spiritual
Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.Collection: Work
Grumbling is the death of loveCollection: Love
Habit: Often mistaken for love.Collection: Habit
[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.Collection: Vegas
Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”Collection: Beauty
Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.Collection: Waiting
I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.Collection: Children
I, personally, liked the legend.Collection: Legends
Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.Collection: Husband
Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.Collection: Grace
What remains is solitude.Collection: Solitude
[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.Collection: Plant
Morocco: Looks better in films.Collection: Morocco
It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.Collection: Needs
A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.Collection: Stars
Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.Collection: Home
It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.Collection: Morning
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.Collection: Country