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.
HEDY LAMARRA good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.
More Hedy Lamarr Quotes
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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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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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The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn’t get a divorce for almost a year.
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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 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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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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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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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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Hope & curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown was always so attractive to me, and still is.
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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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That’s how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.
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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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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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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 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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