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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.

Hedy Lamarr

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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Education Fame Myself Problem Trouble
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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Leadership Man Stars Success True
I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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Life Myself Worth
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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Children Dog Food Home Kiss Life Man Stay
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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Believe Death Destiny Myself Safety
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
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Beautiful Magic Mom Myself Worth
All creative people want to do the unexpected.
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Art Creation Expectation People
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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Feeling Husband Man Marriage Myself Quit
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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Feeling Gift Man Myself
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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Advice Enjoyment Live Money Myself People Yourself
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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Father Mom Myself Naked Remember Surprise
Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
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Age Born Confidence Yourself
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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Fear Myself Start Thinking Understand
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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Health Love Money Myself Wisdom
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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Believe Easy Myself Play Time World
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.
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Children Fairy Tale Father Library Myself
The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.
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Feeling Pay Public
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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Action Life Myself Secret
All my six husbands married me for different reasons.
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Different Marriage Myself Reason
Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.
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Food Girl Run
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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Blame Happiness Husband Myself Suffering
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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Appearance Beautiful Girl Stupidity
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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Appearance Attraction Man See Yourself
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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Lost Photograph Time Win Yourself
I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.
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Myself Talk Understand Voice
Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
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Confidence Emotional Freedom Greatness Myself Time
Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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Attraction Future Hope Myself

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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