Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
HEDY LAMARRI was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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 appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There’s nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
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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 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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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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A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
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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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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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Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices.
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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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I’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.
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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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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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