To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
HEDY LAMARRThe 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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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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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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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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Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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If I were to name my favorite pastime, I’d have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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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 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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