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.
HEDY LAMARRDates 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.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
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I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
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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 don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
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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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It’s funny about men and women. Men pay in cash to get them and pay in cash to get rid of them. Women pay emotionally coming and going. Neither has it easy.
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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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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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.
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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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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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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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If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
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A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
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