Quotes from Marlene Dietrich

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

The tears I have cried over Germany have dried. I have washed my face.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

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.

It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.

Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.

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.

Your daughter is your child for life.

Where have all the flowers gone

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

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

Dietrich would never do that

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

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

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

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

When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.

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

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

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

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.

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

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.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.