The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
HEDY LAMARRPerhaps 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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The world isn’t getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more, The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything – time to work, time to play, time to rest.
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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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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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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 was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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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 am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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 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.
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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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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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All a woman needs is a good bath, clean clothes, and for her hair to be combed. These things she can do herself. I very seldom go to the hairdresser, but when I do, I just marvel.
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