Top 80 Marlene Dietrich Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “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

52. “Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.”

— Marlene Dietrich

53. “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

54. “In Europe, it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or a woman – we make love with anyone we find attractive.”

— Marlene Dietrich

55. “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

56. “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

57. “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

58. “Glamour is what I sell, it’s my stock in trade.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

60. “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

61. “There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.”

— Marlene Dietrich

62. “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

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

— Marlene Dietrich

64. “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

65. “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

66. “H is for Hardware store: I’d rather go to the hardware store than the opera. And I like the opera.”

— Marlene Dietrich

67. “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

68. “A country without bordellos is like a house without bathrooms.”

— Marlene Dietrich

69. “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

70. “The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

72. “I, personally, liked the legend.”

— Marlene Dietrich

73. “I never enjoyed working in a film.”

— Marlene Dietrich

74. “You’re never lonely with a book.”

— Marlene Dietrich

75. “Seeing twilight fall should be prescribed by doctors.”

— Marlene Dietrich

76. “I never ever took my career seriously.”

— Marlene Dietrich

77. “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.”

— Marlene Dietrich

78. “Your daughter is your child for life.”

— Marlene Dietrich

79. “If God exists, he needs to review his plan.”

— Marlene Dietrich

80. “I have a child and I’ve made a few people happy. That is all.”

— Marlene Dietrich

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

— Marlene Dietrich

82. “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.”

— Marlene Dietrich

83. “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

84. “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