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.
Gentleman. A man who buys two of the same morning paper from the doorman of his favorite nightclub when he leaves with his girl.
Where have all the flowers gone.
Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them, you are not necessary to anyone.
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.
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.
Courage and grace are a formidable mixture. The only place to see it is in the bullring.
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.
If there is a supreme being, he’s crazy.
Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.
What a man notices first about a woman is whether she notices him.
I never enjoyed working in a film.
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language.
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.
I’m worth more dead than alive. Don’t cry for me after I’m gone; cry for me now.
Dietrich would never do that.
When you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it.
On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives.
The relationship between the make-up man and the film actor is that of accomplices in crime.