I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
HEDY LAMARRAny girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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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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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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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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When I attained a certain advanced intimacy with a man, and I don’t just mean sex, I married him.
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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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Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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Perhaps my problem in marriage-and it is the problem of many women-was to want both intimacy and independence. It is a difficult line to walk, yet both needs are important to a marriage.
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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 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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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 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.
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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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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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Films have a certain place in a certain time period. Technology is forever.
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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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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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 am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
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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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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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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’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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