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 LAMARRI can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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.
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American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.
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Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.
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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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The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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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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All 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.
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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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Many people are target people. Once when Louis B. Mayer insulted me I poured a glass of water over his head.
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I can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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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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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.
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Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It’s OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.
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