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.
HEDY LAMARRI 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
-
-
Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
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 -
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 -
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 -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
HEDY LAMARR -
A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
HEDY LAMARR -
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
HEDY LAMARR -
When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR






