Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
HEDY LAMARRI’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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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 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.
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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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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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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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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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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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Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It’s OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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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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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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 have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
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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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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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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.
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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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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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