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.
HEDY LAMARRCompromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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I’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.
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I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
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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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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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.
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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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Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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I know when I’m working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
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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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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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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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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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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Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
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I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
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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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Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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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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