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.
HEDY LAMARRI appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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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.
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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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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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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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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 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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