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.
HEDY LAMARRI win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
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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 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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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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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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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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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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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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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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 been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
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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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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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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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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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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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 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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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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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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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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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