Monica Teasdale: I would have stopped working a long time ago if I could have figured out what to do with myself.


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

Monica Teasdale: I've learned quite a lot about Mr. Honey and I know he isn't crazy like they're saying out there. That funny little man is brave and kind and on the level, and he believed what he was telling me. But even I can see it's going to be awfully easy to settle a lot of things by throwing him to the wolves, to say he's crazy and let it go at that. That's why I wanted to meet the people he worked for, to see if they're going to stand behind him, somebody has to.


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

Monica Teasdale: Just a minute, if I'm going to meet my Maker, I'd like to know about it.


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

Monica Teasdale: My gift to posterity is a few cans of celluloid on a junk heap someday.


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

Monica Teasdale: No, the work you do, if you could've finished that, all thse people and lots more wouldn't be in the spot they are in right now. That's the kind of work that hsould be finished.


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

Monica Teasdale: The scientist says the plane is going to crash, the captain says it's not. Your vote doesn't count because you have to side with the captain which means it's a tie.
[the propellers slow]
Monica Teasdale: What's that?
Marjorie Corder: He seems to be saving fuel.
Monica Teasdale: He wouldn't do that without a reason.


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

Monica Teasdale: We were going to take off, only he told them they shouldn't, and the lever was right there, he just pulled it. You've never seen such a commotion in your life. I guess a thing like that has never happened before in the history of the world.


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

Mrs. Bertholt: We must forget if we want to go on living.


--Marlene Dietrich (as Mrs. Bertholt) in Judgment at Nuremberg

Shanghai Lily: It took more than one man to change my name to Shanghai Lily.


--Marlene Dietrich (as Shanghai Lily) in Shanghai Express

Shanghai Lily: When I needed your faith, you withheld it; and now, when I don't need it, and don't deserve it, you give it to me.


--Marlene Dietrich (as Shanghai Lily) in Shanghai Express