Erika von Schluetow: [singing] Want to buy some illusions? Slightly used, just like new. Such romantic illusions, and they're all about you. I sell them all for a penny, they make pretty souvenirs. Take my lovely illusions, some for laughs, some for tears.


--Marlene Dietrich (as Erika Von Schluetow) in A Foreign Affair

Erika von Schluetow: Let's go up to my apartment. It's only a few ruins away from here.


--Marlene Dietrich (as Erika Von Schluetow) in A Foreign Affair

Erika von Schluetow: Want to buy an illusion?


--Marlene Dietrich (as Erika Von Schluetow) in A Foreign Affair

Erika von Schluetow: We've all become animals with exactly one instinct left. Self-preservation. Now take me, Miss Frost. Bombed out a dozen times, everything caved in and pulled out from under me. My country, my possessions, my beliefs... yet somehow I kept going. Months and months in air raid shelters, crammed in with five thousand other people. I kept going. What do you think it was like to be a woman in this town when the Russians first swept in? I kept going.


--Marlene Dietrich (as Erika Von Schluetow) in A Foreign Affair

Fay Duval: I don't get anything out of this joint but tired.


--Marlene Dietrich (as ) in Manpower

Lily Czepanek: I can't take my clothes off!
Richard Waldow: Why? Why can't you?
Lily Czepanek: Why, I'd, I'd be undressed!


--Marlene Dietrich (as ) in The Song of Songs

Lola Lola: They call me Lola.


--Marlene Dietrich (as Lola Lola) in The Blue Angel

Monica Teasdale: All the people who'll come to my funeral, that'll be quite an occasion.
Theodore Honey: Do you have a family, Miss Teasdale?
Monica Teasdale: No, not even a husband at the moment, but there's my agent. oh he'll be so sad, he had five more years at 10%. Then there's Lorene Calvart, oh she'll cry the most. She'll give a beautiful performance, and then she'll try to get the part in the picture I was going to make. I suppose that's why I don't feel the way I thought I would.


--Marlene Dietrich (as ) in No Highway in the Sky

Monica Teasdale: All those people there, makes you wonder which one you would pick out to save if you were God, which one would matter much?


--Marlene Dietrich (as ) in No Highway in the Sky

Monica Teasdale: He told me to sit on the floor in the men's room. If that's not an odd idea I'd like to meet one.
Marjorie Corder: I think he was just telling you the best place to be if there was an accident.
Monica Teasdale: At this altitude?
Marjorie Corder: I think he's right about it being the safest place.
Monica Teasdale: If he's right about that, he may be right about the tail falling off.


--Marlene Dietrich (as ) in No Highway in the Sky