Top 100 Quotes About Marlene Dietrich
#1. People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
Dionne Warwick
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.
Charlize Theron
#5. 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
#6. Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.
Edith Head
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
Edith Head
#10. Marlene Dietrich for the way there was something so unique about her - the way she entered into a frame and everybody looks at her and the way she winks and looks up.
Berenice Bejo
#11. My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
Langston Hughes
#12. 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
#13. As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.
Dita Von Teese
#14. My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.
Jerry Hall
#15. I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.
Ray Bradbury
#16. When I grew up, you wanted to look like Marlene Dietrich, Betty Grable. Fortunately, I didn't know that I really wanted to look like Lena Horne. When I grew up ... black stars were stigmatized. Nobody wanted to look like Lena Horne.
Dorian Corey
#17. Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
Barry Humphries
#18. Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
#21. 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
#23. 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
#26. In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.
Marlene Dietrich
#27. 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
#31. [On Orson Welles:] When I talk to him, I feel like a plant that's been watered.
Marlene Dietrich
#32. What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.
Marlene Dietrich
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.
Marlene Dietrich
#38. [On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions.
Marlene Dietrich
#40. 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
#42. Champagne makes you feel like it's Sunday and better days are just around the corner.
Marlene Dietrich
#43. In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
Marlene Dietrich
#45. Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.
Marlene Dietrich
#46. I have a child and I've made a few people happy. That is all.
Marlene Dietrich
#47. A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.
Marlene Dietrich
#48. In Europe, it doesn't matter if you're a man or a woman - we make love with anyone we find attractive
Marlene Dietrich
#49. Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.
Marlene Dietrich
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.
Marlene Dietrich
#53. Courage and grace is a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is the bullring.
Marlene Dietrich
#54. For women, beauty is more important than the mind, because the man is easier to watch than to think.
Marlene Dietrich
#55. 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
#56. It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters.
Marlene Dietrich
#57. When you prostitute yourself, you have to get paid for it.
Marlene Dietrich
#58. 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
#60. Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.
Marlene Dietrich
#61. A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich
#62. It is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
#63. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#65. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#66. The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor
is that of accomplices in crime
Marlene Dietrich
#68. Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.
Marlene Dietrich
#69. The air and the sky seem to have been freshly washed and polished, and the people too.
Marlene Dietrich
#70. 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.
Marlene Dietrich
#72. There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich Under a picture of a mom holding a baby
Marlene Dietrich
#73. On Becoming a 'Lady': What every mother wants her daughter to be.
Marlene Dietrich
#74. Glamour is assurance. It is a kind of knowing that you are all right in every way, mentally and physically and in appearance, and that, whatever the occasion or the situation, you are equal to it.
Marlene Dietrich
#75. 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
#76. Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
Marlene Dietrich
#77. Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
Marlene Dietrich
#79. You can't live without illusions, even if you must fight for them.
Marlene Dietrich
#85. I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.
Marlene Dietrich
#86. Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.
Marlene Dietrich
#88. H is for Hardware store: I'd rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.
Marlene Dietrich
#89. Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
#91. A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman.
Marlene Dietrich
#93. Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.
Marlene Dietrich
#94. I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.
Marlene Dietrich
#95. The weak are more likely to make the strong weak than the strong are likely to make the weak strong.
Marlene Dietrich
#96. Sex is much better with a woman,
but then one can't live with a woman
Marlene Dietrich
#97. I do not think we have a "right" to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.
Marlene Dietrich
#98. Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.
Marlene Dietrich
#99. Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.
Marlene Dietrich
#100. 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
Marlene Dietrich
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