Top 100 Marlene's Quotes
#1. Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
#5. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#6. People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
Dionne Warwick
#9. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#12. In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
#13. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#14. I grew up watching old black and white movies where Marlene Dietrich or Jean Harlow would go walking down some cobblestone street in ripped stockings and head into some smoky boite and sing for a pathetic living. That's so what I wanted to be.
Ellen Greene
#15. He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?"
-- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood
Whit Masterson
#16. I moved to Holland because I wanted to see American art.
Marlene Dumas
#18. She was a soul-sucking vampire and I was a sixteen-year-old cheerleader, but I was damned if she was going to suck the life out of all my friends. High school was hard enough.
Marlene Perez
#19. No painting can exist without the tension of what it figures and what it concretely consists of. The pleasure of what it could mean and the pain of what it's not.
Marlene Dumas
#20. Many people with Dissociative Disorders are very creative and used their creative capacities to help them cope with childhood trauma.p55
Marlene Steinberg
#21. People have this idea that nature dictates a sort of 1950s sitcom version of what males and females are like. That is just not the case in the insect world.
Marlene Zuk
#25. [On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.
Marlene Dietrich
#26. Nobody can be so beautiful from the outside and so hollow from inside. Not even in a third-rate novel.
Marlene Van Niekerk
#27. What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.
Marlene Dietrich
#28. Marlene picks up the muffin from the ground and bites into it. Uriah shouts, Gross!
Veronica Roth
#30. Where's my white out?"
"Chapter ten is missing!"
"Has anyone seen my socks?"
Linda spun around.
Mistress Yvonne gripped her shoulders. "This is a regular occurrence. No need to get involved."
Faint shouts echoed down the hall. "Leprechauns!
Marlene Simonette
#31. The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich
#32. After all the years, after everything that you'd had to endure, after everything that you'd undertaken, however good or bad, long after you'd given up all hope, the reward.
Marlene Van Niekerk
#33. To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
Marlene Dietrich
#34. Words cause pain, they evoke anger, they make us hate, they lead us to war. But they also make us laugh, bring us joy, and satisfying our emotional hungers.
Marlene Caroselli
#35. I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
Charlize Theron
#36. In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
Frank Capra
#37. There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
Marlene Dietrich
#39. In the beginning Dave and Marlene's relationship had been fantastic. The sex was amazing. There were other good things too of course, but Dave couldn't always remember exactly what they were. But the sex had been off the scale.
Jackson Radcliffe
#40. [On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.
Marlene Dietrich
#43. She would have got a gold medal in social climbing if it was an Olympic sport
Marlene Perez
#44. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that... Marlene Sanders... once gave this piece of advice to a younger journalist: "Never apologize for working. You love what you do, and loving what you do is a great gift to give to your child.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#45. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#46. There are these painterly things that happen while I'm working.
Marlene Dumas
#47. True leaders have so much power they are willing to give it away. Power is not a fixed, quantifiable sum; instead it is an unlimited abstraction which grows as it is shared.
Marlene Caroselli
#49. Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.
Marlene Dietrich
#50. I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.
Jessica Pare
#51. I do think that I'm not good at making pretty things. It doesn't come so naturally for me.
Marlene Dumas
#52. Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.
Edith Head
#53. There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.
Marlene Dumas
#54. In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
Marlene Dietrich
#56. Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
Marlene Dietrich
#57. I am against: general ideas / the nude / the appropriation of images / the mystification of the untitled / the glorification of artistic doubt / the fuzzy edges of sensitivity / old sins / and useless guilt.
Marlene Dumas
#58. The good news is that your child has a natural desire to do well. Your job as parent is to bring out this quality and cherish it until the day your kids leave home, and then some.
Marlene Targ Brill
#59. I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.
Marlene Dietrich
#60. When Black and White are colors and not races, people will still fall in love and discriminate between partners and feel sad and bad and need art that breaks your heart and takes you to those places where pain becomes beauty.
Marlene Dumas
#61. Knowing your feelings won't change the facts, but knowing the facts can change your feelings.
Marlene Chism
#62. A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.
Marlene Dietrich
#63. In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive
Marlene Dietrich
#64. Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Marlene Dietrich
#65. She looked pretty lively for a girl obsessed with death.
Marlene Perez
#66. I mean that it is possible to be unselfish without a moral code, sophisticated without and education, and beautiful wearing a skeleton on the outside.
Marlene Zuk
#67. Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.
Marlene Dietrich
#69. A man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman
any woman
with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich
#70. I am a Scorpio, and playing the seductress appeals to me. There are a lot of women throughout film history, like Marlene Dietrich or Mae West - those are the women I was always attracted to. The bad girls.
Chloe Sevigny
#71. Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.
Marlene Dietrich
#72. Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
Marlene Dietrich
#73. For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.
Marlene Dietrich
#74. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#75. It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.
Marlene Dietrich
#76. I was in 'Martha Marcy May Marlene,' and I got to do a song for the soundtrack.
Christopher Abbott
#77. Now maybe that Arizona incident will make sense to you. I had to get out of that apartment, because if I had stayed in that situation I would have switched, and then all of you would've known the secret that I've kept for so, so long.
Marlene Steinberg
#79. Life is not about how long you live or how much you experience. Life is about how you choose to live it and what you experience.
Marlene Hansen
#80. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#81. I would love to play Marlene Dietrich in a movie. My dad's from Germany and so I feel like that would be a really interesting person to play.
Kirsten Dunst
#82. The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.
Marlene Caroselli
#83. I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling water and she goes, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I said, "A comedian." And she laughed and laughed because she thought that was the cutest, funniest thing ...
Sandra Bernhard
#84. You are a prize," Marlene said. "You really are a prize. Have you spent your whole life learning how to please women?"
"It's my life study," Starhawk said. "Everything else is just a hobby.
Robert Anton Wilson
#85. At the moment my art is situated between the pornographic tendency to reveal everything and the erotic inclination to hide what it's all about.
Marlene Dumas
#86. I'm going to shoot a muffin off Marlene's head.
Veronica Roth
#87. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#88. Well, I did Marlene 15 years ago and that's in the style. It's somehow similar and not similar because Marlene was much more aggressive, funny and sad.
Maximilian Schell
#90. He picked up the biscuit box and said, "Come on, Marlene. Back into hiding in case somebody comes looking for you, although only God knows why anybody would."
"Marlene?" Nell said.
"I'm not calling anything SugarPie," Riley said. "That's obscene.
Jennifer Crusie
#91. Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
Edith Head
#92. One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have a muse, whether it's Frida Kahlo, Martha Graham, Marlene Dietrich, or Pippi Longstocking.
Madonna Ciccone
#93. The best works do not necessarily get to auction. I like to draw, so maybe I give you a little drawing. And then eventually it ends up at auction. And then critics say, 'Oh, that's a bad drawing!' Well, I didn't say it was so wonderful.
Marlene Dumas
#94. I felt it would push me out of my comfort zone and develop my skills. And that's what it's all about - do something new and learn something from it.
Marlene Mienie
#95. Drawings are only a few lines on paper. Therefore it's easy to carry around in plastic bags. Drawings are cheaper than paintings. They don't pretend they'll last forever.
Marlene Dumas
#96. Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age,
but you can't fool a flight of stairs
Marlene Dietrich
#98. Painting doesn't freeze time. It circulates and recycles time like a wheel that turns. Those who were first might well be last. Painting is a very slow art. It doesn't travel with the speed of light. That's why dead painters shine so bright.
Marlene Dumas
#99. Love for the joy of loving, and not for the offerings of someone else's heart.
Marlene Dietrich
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