I don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
HEDY LAMARRAmerican men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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 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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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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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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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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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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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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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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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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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