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.
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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I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
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I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
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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.
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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.
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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
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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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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 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.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.
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Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
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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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Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.
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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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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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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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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