I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
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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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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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I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
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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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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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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 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 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.
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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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