I’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
HEDY LAMARRMr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
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I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
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Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
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I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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I’m fifty-one years old, but I’m not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
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I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
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I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
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Mr. DeMille’s theory of sexual difference was that marriage is an artificial state for women. The want to be taken, ruled, raped. That was his theory.
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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
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Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
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I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
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I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
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All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
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Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.
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If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.
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I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
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