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.
HEDY LAMARRIt’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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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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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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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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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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If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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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I find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
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I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
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One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
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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.
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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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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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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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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 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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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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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.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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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.
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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 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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