Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.
HEDY LAMARRPerhaps 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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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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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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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they’ll run the other way.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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 can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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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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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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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.
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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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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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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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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