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

"In America sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it is a fact."

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

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

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

"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."

"Without tenderness, a man is uninteresting."

— Marlene Dietrich (pictured with Claudette Colbert)