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 LAMARRIt is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
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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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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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 good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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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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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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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