Marlene Dietrich

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

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.

Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

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.

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

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

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

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.

Grumbling is the death of love.

I am not a myth.

Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

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.

They want you to bring out your intestines.

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

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.

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.

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

The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.

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

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

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

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.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

I am at heart a gentleman.

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