MARLENE DIETRICH

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.

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

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.

I never enjoyed working in a film.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

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.

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.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

If there is a supreme being, he's crazy.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

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.

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

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.

I am at heart a gentleman.

Glamour is what I sell, it's my stock in trade.

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

Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him.

I am not a myth.

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

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

I dress for the image. Not for myself, not for the public, not for fashion, not for men.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.