I’m fifty-one years old, but I’m not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more.
HEDY LAMARRI win because I learned years ago that scared money always loses. I never care, so I win.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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.
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Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That’s the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
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All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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The world isn’t getting any easier. With all these new inventions I believe that people are hurried more and pushed more, The hurried way is not the right way; you need time for everything – time to work, time to play, time to rest.
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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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I advise everybody not to save: spend your money. Most people save all their lives and leave it to somebody else. Money is to be enjoyed.
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I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
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Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.
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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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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 am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
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All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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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 can excuse everything but boredom. Boring people don’t have to stay that way.
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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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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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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.
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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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To be a star is to own the world and all the people in it. After a taste of stardom, everything else is poverty.
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Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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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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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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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 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.
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I don’t fear death because I don’t fear anything I don’t understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.
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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.
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