I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
HEDY LAMARRI’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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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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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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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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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