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 LAMARRI 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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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.
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I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
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I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
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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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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 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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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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