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 LAMARRLet any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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Experts 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.
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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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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.
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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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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 have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
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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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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 was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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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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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.
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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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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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