I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
HEDY LAMARRMy mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they’ll run the other way.
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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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I know when I’m working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
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I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
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If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
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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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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 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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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 ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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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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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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 world isn’t getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more, The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything – time to work, time to play, time to rest.
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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 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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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
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