To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
HEDY LAMARRMany people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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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 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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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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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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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 know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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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