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Marlen Dietrich

1901-1992 ,  German-American actress
Marlen DietrichHer performance in The Blue Angel (1930) brought her an international fame and a contract with Paramount. She starred in Hollywood films such as Morocco (1930), Shanghai Express (1932), and Desire (1936) becoming one of the highest-paid actresses of the era.
In 1999, the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema.

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Quotations

When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.

What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.

Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman.

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

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

One should be afraid of life, not of death.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

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

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

Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

I'm not an actress, I'm a personality.

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.

For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

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

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

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

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.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.

Love affairs are the real only education in life.

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

I am at heart a gentleman.

In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive.

To lose your prejudices, you must travel.

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

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

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

What remains is solitude.

Grumbling is the death of love.

Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.”

I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

(on Las Vegas)


Writers, Composers, Painters, - also artists like directors and actors fall into the same category. They have to be handled with kid gloves, mentally and physically.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.

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.

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.

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.

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.

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

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

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.

Morocco... Looks better in films.

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.

I have been photographed to death.

Where have all the flowers gone?

I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.

Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else’s heart.

You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.

Personal Stories

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

I never ever took my career seriously.

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

Funny Quotes

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?


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