Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
HEDY LAMARRBecause you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
-
-
I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
HEDY LAMARR -
Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
HEDY LAMARR -
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
Experts 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.
HEDY LAMARR -
Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
HEDY LAMARR -
I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
HEDY LAMARR -
Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
HEDY LAMARR -
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.
HEDY LAMARR -
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
HEDY LAMARR