Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
HEDY LAMARRAnalysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
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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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I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
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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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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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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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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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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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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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