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.
HEDY LAMARRI 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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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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I know why most people never get rich. They put the money ahead of the job. If you just think of the job, the money will automatically follow. This never fails.
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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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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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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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Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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If I had my way everyone would have a psychiatrist. When the brain is sick and you must throw up, you do it by being purged in a psychiatrist’s office.
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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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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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I don’t believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn’t, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.
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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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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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