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.
HEDY LAMARRI can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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 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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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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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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I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
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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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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
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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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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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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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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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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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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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I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
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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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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’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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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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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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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’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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