Marlene Dietrich Quotes - Page 4

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

I have been photographed to death.

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.

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

I never ever took my career seriously.

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

Your daughter is your child for life.

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.

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

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

I never enjoyed working in a film.

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

Where have all the flowers gone

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

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

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

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