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Marlene Dietrich Quotes
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Actress Quotes
Category:
American Actress Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 27, 1901
Date of Death:
May 6, 1992
Nationality:
American
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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.
Marlene Dietrich

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.
Marlene Dietrich

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.
Marlene Dietrich

Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
Marlene Dietrich

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
Marlene Dietrich

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
Marlene Dietrich

Grumbling is the death of love.
Marlene Dietrich

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.
Marlene Dietrich

I am at heart a gentleman.
Marlene Dietrich

I am not a myth.
Marlene Dietrich

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich

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 Dietrich

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.
Marlene Dietrich

I never enjoyed working in a film.
Marlene Dietrich

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
Marlene Dietrich

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
Marlene Dietrich

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

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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