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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.

Hedy Lamarr

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.
HEDY LAMARR

Attention Love Man Myself Pursue
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Father Mom Myself Naked Remember Surprise
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 LAMARR

Difference Himself Marriage Oppression Rule Sex Thinking Woman
I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
HEDY LAMARR

Life Myself Worth
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Important Independence Marriage Myself Need Problem Woman
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It’s OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
HEDY LAMARR

Appearance Attraction Man See Yourself
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Easy Emotional Funny Man Money Pay Woman
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
HEDY LAMARR

Equality Father Love Man Myself Shame
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
HEDY LAMARR

Appearance Beautiful Girl Stupidity
Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
HEDY LAMARR

Attraction Future Hope Myself
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 LAMARR

Children Fairy Tale Father Library Myself
Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
HEDY LAMARR

Food Live Yourself
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Children Crime Parents Wrong
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Believe Death Destiny Myself Safety
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Enjoyment Exception Kiss Lips Make Up Myself
I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
HEDY LAMARR

Advice Enjoyment Live Money Myself People Yourself

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