I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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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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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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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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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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 find very often that very ugly women have really handsome men and vice versa because they don’t have any competition. Sometimes handsome men have avoided me.
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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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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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I have not been that wise. Health I have taken for granted. Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often. As for money, I have only realized its true worth when I didn’t have it.
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One of my favorite people is Gypsy Rose Lee. She bears out the Biblical promise that he who has, gets. And I hope she gets a lot more.
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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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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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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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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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