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 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 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 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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
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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.
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The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true.
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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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Mr. 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.
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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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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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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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