Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
HEDY LAMARRThe ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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 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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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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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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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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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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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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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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