Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Marlene Dietrich - Page 2

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

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.

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

A new kind of award has been added -- the deathbed award. It is not an award of any kind. Either the recipient has not acted at all, or was not nominated, or did not win the award the last few times around. It is intended to relieve the guilty conscience of the Academy members and save face in front of the public. The Academy has the horrible taste to have a star, choking with emotion, present this deathbed award so that there can be no doubt in anybody's mind why the award is so hurriedly given. Lucky is the actor who is too sick to watch the proceedings on television.

What remains is solitude.

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

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

On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.

Morocco: Looks better in films.

Grumbling is the death of love

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

Where have all the flowers gone

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

Your daughter is your child for life.

Do let him read the papers. But not while you accusingly tiptoe around the room, or perch much like a silent bird of prey on the edge of your most uncomfortable chair. (He will read them anyway, and he should read them, so let him choose his own good time.) Don't make a big exit. Just go. But kiss him quickly, before you go, otherwise he might think you are angry; he is used to suspecting he is doing something wrong.

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

I, personally, liked the legend.

Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.

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.

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.

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

I never ever took my career seriously.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

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

I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.

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

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

[On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.

Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.

Dietrich would never do that

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

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

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

On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.

...it gives you the impression that every day is Sunday.

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.

I have been photographed to death.