My 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.
HEDY LAMARRThat’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
-
-
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 LAMARR -
I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
HEDY LAMARR -
Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It’s OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
HEDY LAMARR -
Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
I win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
HEDY LAMARR -
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 LAMARR -
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
HEDY LAMARR -
I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
HEDY LAMARR -
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
HEDY LAMARR -
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
HEDY LAMARR -
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
HEDY LAMARR -
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
HEDY LAMARR -
Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
HEDY LAMARR -
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
HEDY LAMARR -
Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
HEDY LAMARR