Quotes by Marlene Dietrich

• Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
• Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
• It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
• In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
• Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
• If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.
• I never enjoyed working in a film.
• Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
• Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
• Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.
• The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
• The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
• The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.
• There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
• Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
• When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.
• Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.
• 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.
• Grumbling is the death of love.
• Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
• 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.
• Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 am not a myth.
• A true friend is someone you can go long periods of time without seeing and never once question the strength of your bond.