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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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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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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
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I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
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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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Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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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The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
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I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
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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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