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.
HEDY LAMARRExperts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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 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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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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.
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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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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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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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It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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