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.
HEDY LAMARRLawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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’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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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
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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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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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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’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
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Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they’ll run the other way.
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I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
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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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