Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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
-
-
I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
HEDY LAMARR -
I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
HEDY LAMARR -
Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
HEDY LAMARR -
I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
HEDY LAMARR -
A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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 -
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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 -
I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
HEDY LAMARR -
Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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 -
I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
HEDY LAMARR -
It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
HEDY LAMARR -
I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
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 -
All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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 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 LAMARR -
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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