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.
HEDY LAMARRThe 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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’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’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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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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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 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.
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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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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 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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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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My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
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If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
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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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