The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
HEDY LAMARRCompromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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The world isn’t getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more, The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything – time to work, time to play, time to rest.
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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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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they’ll run the other way.
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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
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I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
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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 can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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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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Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.
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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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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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