I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
HEDY LAMARRI’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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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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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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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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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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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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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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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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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 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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