“I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.”

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.

I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

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.

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.

Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

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.

I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.

I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.

When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.

The world isn’t getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more, The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything – time to work, time to play, time to rest.

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.

Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we could listen more and talk less.

People who talk well but do nothing are like musical instruments; the sound is all they have to offer.

The night is young we can keep talking till morning but lets change to the body language instead.

Quiet people are actually talkative around the mirror.

I only give my conservation to Siri.

I’ve never been noticeably reticent about talking on subjects about which I know nothing.

Find the one you can talk to, when you can’t talk to anybody else.

People tried to talk me out of running for president. Never let weak controlling people kill your spirit.