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 LAMARRExperts 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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.
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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
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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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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 have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
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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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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 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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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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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