That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
HEDY LAMARRHope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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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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I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
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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 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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Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.
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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 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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
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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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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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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.
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I’ve been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only have three close friends. I guess that’s all anyone can expect.
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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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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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I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
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