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.
HEDY LAMARRI was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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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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The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
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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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I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
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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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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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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 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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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 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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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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