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 LAMARRMr. 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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 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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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.
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I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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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 never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
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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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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 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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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
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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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