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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.

Hedy Lamarr

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.
HEDY LAMARR

Myself Talk Understand Voice
Some men like a dull life – they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it – it’s often catching.
HEDY LAMARR

Children Dog Food Home Kiss Life Man Stay
I never go to funerals. To me a person is dead when he breathes for the last time. After that, your memories should be personal.
HEDY LAMARR

Breathe Death Memories Myself Person Privacy Time
To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
HEDY LAMARR

Fame People Stars Taste World
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Leadership Man Stars Success True
Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don’t have time to teach him.
HEDY LAMARR

Age Attraction Learning Man Myself Relationship Teaching Time
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Health Love Money Myself Wisdom
Most children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
HEDY LAMARR

Children Crime Parents Wrong
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Citizenship Education Knowledge Myself
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 LAMARR

Enjoyment Exception Kiss Lips Make Up Myself
American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
HEDY LAMARR

Body Man Money
I’d rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
HEDY LAMARR

Appearance Beautiful Myself
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
HEDY LAMARR

Confidence Emotional Freedom Greatness Myself Time
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Herself Himself Hope Myself People Promise
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Beautiful Magic Mom Myself Worth
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.
HEDY LAMARR

Avoid Beautiful Funny Man Myself Relationship Woman

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