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.
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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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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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’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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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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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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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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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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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
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Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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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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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I enjoy countless hundreds pursuing me. I love those who love me the most. I am sort of flattered by men showing attention to me.
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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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