A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.
HEDY LAMARRMost children turn out badly because they have the wrong parental image. This doesn’t mean their parents are criminal. It means they are boring and cruel.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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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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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Experts 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.
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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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Because you don’t live near a bakery doesn’t mean you have to go without cheesecake.
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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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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 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 was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.
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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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It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
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I’m a sworn enemy of convention. I despise the conventional in anything, even the arts.
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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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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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