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.
HEDY LAMARRConfidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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.
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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 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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Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.
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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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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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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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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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