Quotes by
Marlen Dietrich |
1901-1992 , German-American actress
Her 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. 15 |
| • | What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him. 13 |
| • | Sex is much better with a woman, but then one can't live with a woman. 11 |
| • | The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. 10 |
| • | In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact. 10 |
| • | One should be afraid of life, not of death. 9 |
| • | Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting. 7 |
| • | A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms. 6 |
| • | Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him. 6 |
| • | I'm not an actress, I'm a personality. 6 |
| • | If there is a supreme being, he's crazy. 6 |
| • | Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless. 5 |
| • | Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs. 5 |
| • | 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. 5 |
| • | For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think. 5 |
| • | Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life. 5 |
| • | It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. 5 |
| • | Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret. 5 |
| • | Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. 4 |
| • | 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. 4 |
| • | Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers. 4 |
| • | Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors. 4 |
| • | Love affairs are the real only education in life. 4 |
| • | The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong. 4 |
| • | I am at heart a gentleman. 4 |
| • | In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive. 4 |
| • | To lose your prejudices, you must travel. 4 |
| • | Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. 3 |
| • | Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring. 3 |
| • | The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime. 3 |
| • | What remains is solitude. 3 |
| • | Grumbling is the death of love. 3 |
| • | Lover's words: “How beautiful you are, now that you love me.” 3 |
| • | I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions. (on Las Vegas) 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich. 3 |
| • | H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy. 3 |
| • | I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men. 3 |
| • | 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. 2 |
| • | Morocco... Looks better in films. 2 |
| • | A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms. 2 |
| • | Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children. 2 |
| • | I have been photographed to death. 2 |
| • | Where have all the flowers gone? 2 |
| • | I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks. 2 |
| • | Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else’s heart. 2 |
| • | You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them. 2 |
Personal Stories
| • | The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. 4 |
| • | I never ever took my career seriously. 3 |
| • | Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade. 3 |
Funny Quotes
| • | In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English? 2 |
