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 LAMARRIf 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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.
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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 can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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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 appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
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I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
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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.
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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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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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I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
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