Marlene Dietrich Quotes

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

Don't follow it blindly into every dark alley. Always remember that you are not a model or a mannequin for which the fashion is created.

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

A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.

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

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

Your daughter is your child for life.

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

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

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.

What remains is solitude.

Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.

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

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

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

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.

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

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

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

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.

Where have all the flowers gone

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

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

I have been photographed to death.

Habit: Often mistaken for love.

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

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

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

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

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, personally, liked the legend.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Grumbling is the death of love

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

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

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

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

The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.

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

one should be afraid of life, not of death.

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

Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

I never ever took my career seriously.