Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
HEDY LAMARRIt’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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
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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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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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