When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
HEDY LAMARRA good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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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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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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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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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 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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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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 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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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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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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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.
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