All creative people want to do the unexpected.
HEDY LAMARRAll creative people want to do the unexpected.
HEDY LAMARRIf 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.
HEDY LAMARRThe ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
HEDY LAMARRMany people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
HEDY LAMARRExperts 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 LAMARRLet any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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.
HEDY LAMARRConfidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
HEDY LAMARRMen 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 LAMARRAll 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.
HEDY LAMARRBecause you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
HEDY LAMARRI’ve met the most interesting people while flying or on a boat. These methods of travel seem to attract the kind of people I want to be with.
HEDY LAMARRI 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 LAMARRI 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.
HEDY LAMARRI don’t have any gnawing guilt over contributing to any unhappiness suffered by my husbands. They were as much to blame as I was.
HEDY LAMARRPerhaps 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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